[12028] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: New Net Name
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ari Ollikainen)
Mon May 2 21:58:50 1994
Date: Mon, 2 May 94 14:29:49 PDT
From: ari@es.net (Ari Ollikainen)
To: cni-modernization@cni.org, mb5o+@andrew.cmu.edu
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
>
> 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:
>
> "I"
>
Naahhh... I like Route 666: The Infernal SuperHypeway
Get your CIX on Route 666...
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