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

[Vint Cerf]

i remember that story (about the ladies underwear). I can assure you that
the name we used for the computer network was not motivated by that product!

v


On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 9:13 AM Jorge Amodio <jmamodio at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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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