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Re:Riot is now Element by detritus on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @08:20AM (#23844133)
This is one thing I always loved about The Economist - it didn't matter how obvious an entity might seem, they would always qualify what it is when mentioned in an article, never presuming upon their readers' knowledge, eg. "...Google, an internet search engine, ..."

- ed: typo

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Re:Riot is now Element by easytiger on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @09:45AM (#23845105)
You have to consider than in 100 years, people may not really widely know what Google was.
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Re:Riot is now Element by wmf on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @12:45PM (#23847828)
But the only people reading 100-year-old articles will be historians who can/should track down those references.
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