English

Proper noun

Intertubes pl

1. (chiefly Internet slang, humorous) The Internet.
   • 2007, David Gewirtz, Where have all the emails gone? (citing a March 30, 2007 blog post on Corrente Wire), Zatz, p. 95:

     Nameserver administrators also provide email forwarding, which is the equivalent of call-forwarding on the Intertubes.

   • 2008, January, Rik Myslewski, "Deep Tech - Multicore Management", Mac Life, vol. 2, issue 1, p. 17:

     (If you missed my musings, you can find them on the Intertubes here [link removed])

   • 2009, Bob & Jenna Torres, Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World, 2nd ed., PM Press, p. 52:

     Go on out to the wilds of the Intertubes and have a look: there are approximately 8,234,58721 vegan food blogs […]

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• intertube