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 (Gopher://Gopher.well.sf.ca.us/00/Community/communets/about.nets)}. 2. The title of some informal notes on Internet addressing, ("Toasternet Part I and II"), circulated on the IETFmailing 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)