Subject: Re: netnews history [was: Re: can lisp do what perl does easily? ]
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 2000/04/25
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <8e3s0e$3k5hb$1@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Paolo Amoroso  <amoroso@mclink.it> wrote:
+---------------
| rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock) wrote:
| > by 1981 ... were already using netnews heavily for internal
| > communications among engineering & test groups.
| 
| Your employer's marketing guys missed the opportunity to be the first to
| call such a thing an "intranet" :)
+---------------

Yeah, well, I never liked that neologism anyway...
Calling it a "private internet" (lower-case "i")
seemed quite adequate to me.


-Rob

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