The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
Aloha Net
    (From the Hawaiian greeting) One of the first
   functioning networks in the USA, conceived and implimented
   at the University of Hawaii campus at Manoa.  Its purpose
   was to link the University mainframe computer to client
   computers located on outer islands at University campuses.
   Put in place in the early 1970s, it was dubed the Aloha Net.
   Key punch cards were fed through a reader, and sent over the
   commercial phone lines.
   (1995-12-10)