< networking > 1. A low cost, low tech, publicly accessible local community network . This is probably an extension of the term " toaster " used to mean a small, cheap, slow computer.
community networks .
2. The title of some informal notes on Internet address ing, ("Toasternet Part I and II"), circulated on the IETF mailing list during November 1991 and March 1992.
Subsequent work was published in June 1993 in RFC 1475 and RFC 1476 and the " CATNIP " Internet-Draft by Robert L. Ullmann
(1995-05-01)