diff --git a/boot.php b/boot.php
index ede6fc77b9..98db95227f 100644
--- a/boot.php
+++ b/boot.php
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ use Friendica\Model\Contact;
 use Friendica\Database\DBStructure;
 use Friendica\Module\Login;
 
-require_once 'include/network.php';
 require_once 'include/text.php';
 require_once 'include/datetime.php';
 
diff --git a/include/bbcode.php b/include/bbcode.php
index 0544c4c616..8f758ae616 100644
--- a/include/bbcode.php
+++ b/include/bbcode.php
@@ -748,8 +748,6 @@ function bb_RemovePictureLinks($match) {
 			$text = "[url=".$match[2]."]".$match[2]."[/url]";
 
 			// if its not a picture then look if its a page that contains a picture link
-			require_once("include/network.php");
-
 			$body = Network::fetchURL($match[1]);
 
 			$doc = new DOMDocument();
@@ -805,8 +803,6 @@ function bb_CleanPictureLinksSub($match) {
 			$text = "[img]".$match[2]."[/img]";
 
 			// if its not a picture then look if its a page that contains a picture link
-			require_once("include/network.php");
-
 			$body = Network::fetchURL($match[1]);
 
 			$doc = new DOMDocument();
diff --git a/include/network.php b/include/network.php
deleted file mode 100644
index 840991aa52..0000000000
--- a/include/network.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-/**
- * @file include/network.php
- */
-use Friendica\App;
-use Friendica\Core\Addon;
-use Friendica\Core\L10n;
-use Friendica\Core\System;
-use Friendica\Core\Config;
-use Friendica\Network\Probe;
-use Friendica\Object\Image;
-use Friendica\Util\Network;
-use Friendica\Util\XML;
-
-function parse_xml_string($s, $strict = true)
-{
-	return Network::parseXmlString($s, $strict);
-}
-
-function scale_external_images($srctext, $include_link = true, $scale_replace = false)
-{
-	return Network::scaleExternalImages($srctext, $include_link, $scale_replace);
-}
-
-function fix_contact_ssl_policy(&$contact, $new_policy)
-{
-	Network::fixContactSslPolicy($contact, $new_policy);
-}
-
-function strip_tracking_query_params($url)
-{
-	return Network::stripTrackingQueryParams($url);
-}
-
-function original_url($url, $depth = 1, $fetchbody = false)
-{
-	return Network::originalURL($url, $depth, $fetchbody);
-}
-
-function short_link($url)
-{
-	return Network::shortLink($url);
-}
-
-function json_return_and_die($x)
-{
-	Network::jsonReturnAndDie($x);
-}
-
-function matching_url($url1, $url2)
-{
-	return Network::matchingURL($url1, $url2);
-}
-
-function unParseUrl($parsed)
-{
-	return Network::unParseURL($parsed);
-}
diff --git a/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php b/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php
index 9162316d72..664be933ae 100644
--- a/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php
+++ b/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ use Friendica\Util\ParseUrl;
 
 require_once "include/bbcode.php";
 require_once "include/html2plain.php";
-require_once "include/network.php";
 
 class BBCode
 {
diff --git a/src/Model/GContact.php b/src/Model/GContact.php
index 231970820f..0991110316 100644
--- a/src/Model/GContact.php
+++ b/src/Model/GContact.php
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ use Exception;
 
 require_once 'include/datetime.php';
 require_once 'include/dba.php';
-require_once 'include/network.php';
 require_once 'include/html2bbcode.php';
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/Model/User.php b/src/Model/User.php
index bc14098d40..c767ec1b62 100644
--- a/src/Model/User.php
+++ b/src/Model/User.php
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ use Exception;
 require_once 'boot.php';
 require_once 'include/dba.php';
 require_once 'include/enotify.php';
-require_once 'include/network.php';
 require_once 'library/openid.php';
 require_once 'include/text.php';
 /**
diff --git a/src/Network/Probe.php b/src/Network/Probe.php
index db4f307b6b..79b3840034 100644
--- a/src/Network/Probe.php
+++ b/src/Network/Probe.php
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ class Probe
 	/**
 	 * @brief Check an URI for LRDD data
 	 *
-	 * this is a replacement for the "lrdd" function in include/network.php.
+	 * this is a replacement for the "lrdd" function.
 	 * It isn't used in this class and has some redundancies in the code.
 	 * When time comes we can check the existing calls for "lrdd" if we can rework them.
 	 *
diff --git a/src/Protocol/PortableContact.php b/src/Protocol/PortableContact.php
index 35ec7fe962..9ed48b1cf4 100644
--- a/src/Protocol/PortableContact.php
+++ b/src/Protocol/PortableContact.php
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ use Exception;
 
 require_once 'include/dba.php';
 require_once 'include/datetime.php';
-require_once 'include/network.php';
 require_once 'include/html2bbcode.php';
 
 class PortableContact
diff --git a/src/Util/ParseUrl.php b/src/Util/ParseUrl.php
index ba9b7ec146..1c5676aced 100644
--- a/src/Util/ParseUrl.php
+++ b/src/Util/ParseUrl.php
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ use DOMXPath;
 use DOMDocument;
 
 require_once 'include/dba.php';
-require_once "include/network.php";
 
 /**
  * @brief Class with methods for extracting certain content from an url