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Re:Why was .NET called .NET? by narcissus on Sunday May 06, 2012 @07:45AM (#3934857)
It's funny that you should mention their cluelessness of the web at the start. I remember when .NET was first released, my first question was "wow, how do they ever expect me to find that in a search engine?!?"

Search engines were a little dumber back then :)

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Re:Why was .NET called .NET? by icebraining on Sunday May 06, 2012 @08:42AM (#3934960)
Cā™Æ isn't much better, since IIRC search engines often ignored special characters.
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Re:Why was .NET called .NET? by TazeTSchnitzel on Sunday May 06, 2012 @08:09AM (#3934902)
"dot net"
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Re:Why was .NET called .NET? by narcissus on Sunday May 06, 2012 @01:52PM (#3935720)
... is fine now. It wasn't at the time, for me at least. It truly was difficult for a lot of people to search for anything on it.
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Re:Why was .NET called .NET? by DavidAbrams on Sunday May 06, 2012 @02:54PM (#3935931)
Companies are STILL pulling moronic moves like that. Cooke, a cinema-camera-lens company, decided to call their electronically coupled lens technology "/i". Yes a slash with an "i" after it. Try searching on THAT.
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