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Re:Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong by jjtheblunt on Friday April 02, 2021 @10:39PM (#26678005)
I think it carries over from NeXTstep, iirc.
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Re:Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong by ethbr0 on Friday April 02, 2021 @11:02PM (#26678112)
It feels like a choice when "net" meant "my campus network", not "the internet."

Because why would you be connected to the internet all the time? And how could you even afford those long distance calls?

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Re:Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong by 1MachineElf on Saturday April 03, 2021 @12:34AM (#26678464)
Because why would you be connected to the internet all the time? And how could you even afford those long distance calls?

That one East German guy in Cliff Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg found a creative answer for both of those.

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