Connected to or available through the internet or a computer network.
From "on" and "line," where "line" originally meant a physical connection like a telephone line. As computers and networks spread, "online" came to mean actively connected to a digital system.
Being "online" used to mean literally attached to a physical cable; now it feels almost like a mental state. The word shows how invisible our infrastructure has become—we rarely think about the lines anymore.
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