[12027] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: New Net Name
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Fancher)
Mon May 2 21:46:27 1994
From: bruce@phantom.com (Bruce Fancher)
To: mb5o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Bauer)
Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 17:13:45 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: cni-modernization@cni.org, com-priv@psi.com, mb5o+@andrew.cmu.edu,
gleick@pipeline.com, digital@phantom.com (Patrick K. Kroupa)
In-Reply-To: <ohlGfle00WB48dVaZ0@andrew.cmu.edu> from "Michael Bauer" at May 2, 94 12:31:45 pm
[Michael Bauer] has written:
|
| <forgive crossing>
|
| After reading James Gleick's article in the New York Times Magazine
| on Sunday, May 1st, 1994, I was inspired. Mr. Gleick educated the
| the great unwashed by noting that the "Information Superhighway"
| is actually called the "Infobahn" or the "I-way" by people-in-the-know
| (or at least by those of us who like to think they bathe.)
|
| In keeping with this very 90's downsizing trend, I'd like to lay claim
| to coining an even shorter term for the Net.
|
| <drumroll please>
|
| The new name for the Information Supercalifragilisticexbealidocious
| Highway is the:
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| "I"
|
|
| That's it, just I. Or, if you speak with an accent, *I*. Yes, I
| think that this has a lot going for it: easier to type, has mystical
| connotations (the ego for the planet, the "I" in Gaia), and last but not
| least, it will save oodles in disk space (an oodle is approximately n meg).
|
| Of course, I will probably have to start using "I (c) Copyright 1994
| Michael Bauer, All Rights Reserved" with the way things are going, but
| I'll cross that bridge (or dot that i) when I come to it.
|
|
| B)
|
| But seriously, if you want to know good advertising, THAT article, was
| good advertising. And cheap. Probably got paid to promote his service!!
|
|
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|
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Yeah, I'm waiting for the Times to call me up and allow me to write an
article pumping my own for-profit venture. ;-)
That sort of article is appropriate for a trade publication like InfoWorld,
but it's sleazy when what used to be a good newspaper gives one of it's
staff members free ad space in the form of an "article."
