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Nice idea, but as other commenters has pointed out, maybe not the best name. Back in the 90’s when I first connected to the internet, my ISP provided a package called Internet in a Box made by a company called Spry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBox


Back in the 90’s

Well forget it then, it might as well have been a billion years ago. Internet in a Box is an ideal name - describes exactly what it does.


Never heard of the company but I think it's much better than what we see otherwise. Like names of food or things that sound like something which has absolutely no relation to the product.


This was my first thought as well! Our first computer came with Spry Internet in a Box in 1996. Mosaic was already aging pretty badly at that point, the early web changed fast.


>back in the 90's

I'll just put this here https://youtu.be/FBw-Z8ULwcc


The 90's Internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfMrVKnGzwg

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