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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