ITused to refer toelectronicinformationbeingmovedphysicallyfrom onecomputerto another on a CD,disk, etc.:In thedaysof "sneakernet," the only way tomovefilesfrom onecomputerto another was bycopyingthem to adiskand taking them to therecipient.(Definition ofsneakernetfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsneakernet
sneakernetThis provides a viable mode of transport for long distancesneakernetuse.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Nevertheless, for large transfers, avian carriers are capable of high average throughput when carrying flash memory devices, effectively implementing asneakernet.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Before that, people who wanted to share files used thesneakernetmethod.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Most computing environments before the 1990s were non-networked and floppy disks were the primary means of transferring data between computers, a method known informally assneakernet.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This early form of foot-powered networking was referred to assneakernet, the reason for doing this was cost, it was cheaper to print on a 1005 than the 315.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A data mule is a special case of asneakernet, where the data is automatically loaded and unloaded when the data mule arrives at its terminal locations.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/sneakernet##
