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[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Back then, an internet (lower case "i") was a small internal network of computers that communicated with each other.

That's what I was told too, but I never once encountered anybody who used the small-i "internet" term. I heard "network", or "intranet" or often topology-related things like "the token-ring network". For a network of networks, I'd hear "WAN" or "external network" but never "internet". Maybe that's just me, but I suspect that small-i "internet" was never really a term that was widely used, if at all.

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