BITNETabbr. 一种联接世界教育单位的计算机网络（Because It's Time Network）
网络短语:
BITNET Because It's Time Network 正合时宜
中文百科
BITNET
因时网BITNET(Because It's Time Network)是1980年代由美国纽约州大学和耶鲁大学的研究者们创建的一个学术研究网络，也是今天互联网的雏形，如ARPA网一样。虽然依照今天的标准BITNET显得非常简陋，但它的功能却已基本成型：提供收发电子邮件，交换文档以及在空间内共同分享文本信息。
英语百科
BITNET
BITNET was a co-operative U.S. university computer network founded in 1981 by Ira Fuchs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and Greydon Freeman, Inc. at Yale University. The first network link was between CUNY and Yale.
BITNET came to mean "Because It's Time Network", although the original meaning was "Because It's There Network".