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The term “network” appears in literature with a rich variety of connotations, ranging from the literal interconnection of computer systems to metaphorical images of complexity and interwoven structure. In contemporary cyber-fiction, such as in Cory Doctorow’s works, “network” frequently refers to wireless or layered digital systems that facilitate communication and resistance ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5]). Meanwhile, historical and poetic texts deploy the term to evoke intricate natural or urban linkages, for instance, describing vast networks of electricity or a tangled web of streets and branches ([6], [7], [8], [9], [10]). Additionally, “network” is used to denote organized groups or systems, whether in the context of academic consortia, grassroots movements, or even blood vessels in the human body ([11], [12], [13], [14]). This multiplicity underscores how the word bridges technical modernity and classical imagery, inviting readers to consider both the overt and subtle connections that shape our world.
  1. It's just a wireless network.
    — from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
  2. The network's name was HarajukuFM, so we knew we had the right spot.
    — from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
  3. We need a network within the network."
    — from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
  4. Every network has a DNS server living on it, and all of those servers are configured to talk to each other and to random people all over the Internet.
    — from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
  5. So my copy of Firefox was called $SYS$Firefox -- and as I launched it, it became invisible to Windows, and so invisible to the network's snoopware.
    — from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
  6. We have said above, that the actual network, thanks to the special activity of the last thirty years, was no less than sixty leagues in extent.
    — from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  7. Then looking hard, I distinguished through the interlacing network the head and body of the brute I had seen drinking.
    — from The island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
  8. All lovely colours there you see, All colours that were ever seen, And mossy network too is there, As if by hand of lady fair
    — from Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth
  9. This tumultuous network of streets was filled with rumors.
    — from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  10. Slowly we pushed in among the fretted network of branches and leaves.
    — from The island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
  11. This grassroots driven "network" has grown out of the global university and research domains.
    — from The Online World by Odd De Presno
  12. This network of arteries contains maternal blood, brought by the uterine vessels.
    — from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
  13. The people who did that are an organization devoted to personal liberty, who created the network to keep us safe from DHS spooks and enforcers."
    — from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
  14. To fulfill its clients' international business development needs, G.a Communications maintains a close-knit network of competences worldwide.
    — from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

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