"Intertubes" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2007, David Gewirtz, Where have all the emails gone? (citing a March 30, 2007 blog post on Corrente Wire), Zatz, p. 95",
          "text": "Nameserver administrators also provide email forwarding, which is the equivalent of call-forwarding on the Intertubes."
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          "ref": "2008 January, Rik Myslewski, “Deep Tech - Multicore Management”, in Mac Life, volume 2, number 1, page 17",
          "text": "(If you missed my musings, you can find them on the Intertubes here [link removed])",
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          "ref": "2009, Bob & Jenna Torres, Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World, 2nd edition, PM Press, page 52",
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