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The Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary
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online:

... connected within a network as in connected to the Web (World Wide Web); to be actively engaged or connected to a communications network, such as the Internet. When there were just telephones in a landline network people would say they were on the phone line, meaning connected by a solid medium in the form of wire ... telephone lines. The concept of communicating through wires stuck so that today an analogous definition of online refers also to wireless connections for transmitting electromagnetic waves through space as well.
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related: online directory; contact directory; online information service; GRC; landline
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FYI: meaning of connected to the Internet, meaning of connected the the Web, meaning of connected to the World Wide Web, meaning of connected online, definition of online

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