"anternet" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Blend of ant + internet\nCoined by Balaji Prabhakar, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University.",
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          "ref": "2012, The Ant Internet, IEEE Spectrum",
          "text": "Long before researchers invented the Internet, ants invented something kind of like an anternet, and the two networks work pretty much the same way."
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          "text": "2013, Stanford course explores social networking in the 18th century – and in nature, Stanford News\nShe and Balaji Prabhakar, a professor of electrical engineering and of computer science, last year published a paper showing that the ants' \"anternet\" algorithm follows the same rules as the protocols that regulate data traffic congestion on the Internet."
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        "The means by which ants communicate with each other, analogous to the TCP/IP algorithm that the internet uses to control the flow of data."
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