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.

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