A rare piece of early internet slang referring to a brief, disruptive split in an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) network — a 'netsplit' — that causes servers to temporarily disconnect and reconnect. The 'burp' metaphor captures the fleeting, involuntary nature of the disruption: it happens, it's annoying, and then it's over. Mostly confined to IRC culture of the 1990s–2000s. Almost entirely obsolete now except among old-school IRC nostalgists.
Half the channel just vanished — probably just a netburp, they'll be back in a minute.
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(internet slang, rare) A netsplit .
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