"Julio M. Merino Vidal" wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday 14 January 2004 21:23, Allen Briggs wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 03:15:54PM -0500, Chuck Yerkes wrote:
> > > I mean what the hell does "NET" mean?  From the NET2 release?  That's
> > > sad.
> >
> > IIRC (probably not--brain rot, y'know... ;-), it might just
> > have something to do with the medium in which it was forged.
> > You know, a NETwork of people cooperating over the interNET.
> > Maybe cooperation has gone out of style as spam has poisoned
> > the internet.
> 
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> 
> "Why the name?" contains some more information about this.
> 
Well, we had netHack and netMoria before the commercial Internet.  
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