Toasternet
<networking> 1. A low cost, low tech, publicly accessible local community
network.
This is probably an extension of the term "
toaster" used to mean a small, cheap, slow computer.
community networks (gopher://gopher.well.sf.ca.us/00/Community/communets/about.nets).
2. The title of some informal notes on
Internet addressing, ("Toasternet Part I and II"), circulated on the
IETF mailing list during November 1991 and March 1992.
Subsequent work was published in June 1993 in
RFC 1475 and RFC 1476 and the "
CATNIP"
Internet-Draft by Robert L. Ullmann
