Nonliners

James Harbeck jharbeck at SYMPATICO.CA
Mon Nov 24 00:33:34 UTC 2008


>A BBC report on Friday (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7736389.stm)
>used "nonliners" to mean those who were not online, specifically without a
>broadband connection. It's a curious neologism.

And here I thought, on seeing the subject line, that it was a new
kind of joke consisting of silence.

James Harbeck.

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