[ih] Early use of the "Internet" term (1977)

[Jorge Amodio]

You bet!

In Argentina there was a company in 1953 that was selling "Internet"
panties for the ladies way before RFC 675 ;-)

I wrote an article about it long time ago, but there is a page out there
where you can see some of the advertisements on a popular magazine of that
time (Radiolandia)
https://www.bigbangnews.com/actualidad/la-historia-del-argentino-que-fabrico-bombachas-en-los-50-y-las-bautizo-internet--2016-8-5-16-32-0


So some may argue that Internet is actually an Argentinean invention....
:LOL

Cheers
Jorge


On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 10:06 PM John Gilmore <gnu at toad.com> wrote:

> There were several companies who had used the word "INTERNET" to describe
> their products.  None of these were "the Internet", of course.  The most
> troublesome was a small network of bank ATMs that had a trademark on
> Internet and tried to enforce it against people who used the word to
> describe the global telecommunications network.  The Internet Society
> had to spend years and hundreds of thousands of dollars on lawyers to
> free up the name for generic use.
>
> See e.g. "9. Trademark Defense" in:
>
>   https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/minutes/8
>
>         John
>
>
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