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Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Nov. 29 2004, 20:18 Some time ago, replying to someone in a topic - I don't remember which one, maybe "Misheard lyrics"? - I said that a famous line in "Foreign Affair", often misheard as "a new territory for an Internet story", couldn't possibly have been written like that because the Internet didn't exist in 1982-'83. Now I'd like to correct myself: the Internet did exist back then; only, AFAIK, it was a strictly military organization, and it was known as Arpanet. The word 'Internet', always AFAIK, was coined in 1991, when the Net was rapidly expanding and already becoming the World Wide Web (IIRC that term, and its acronym WWW, were also coined in 1991). Can anyone tell me whether I'm wrong again or not? -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

The Thin Man Group: Members Posts: 151 Joined: May 2002 Posted: Nov. 30 2004, 15:06 Ugo - I've not listened to the track since reading your post but I've always thought the lyric was "intimate". The Thin Man Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Nov. 30 2004, 18:02 Of course it is. But my argument, in the post above and in my reply to that topic, was that the word "Internet" in that song was really a mishearing, as it didn't exist as a word back in 1982-'83. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: Nov. 30 2004, 19:07 Internet was created in 1969,afaik,but it only came to public use in the early 90's,afaik. -------------- "But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014 "I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011 Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: Nov. 30 2004, 19:22 Yes. I found this out when I looked into the question of whether or not Al Gore's claim to have invented it in Congress was true (it was invented long before Gore got to Congress) -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

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