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Who first coined "Internet in a box?" When I saw the title, I thought back fondly to 1994 when my dad came home with a package of software called "Internet in a box" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBox.



The naming reminds me of MailInABox: https://mailinabox.email/


It was some repackage of Netscape and plugins and some dialup from mid 90s.

I remember the name as it was so ludicrous to think the internet fit in a box. Meanwhile a decade of usenet is only 10gb.


first ting I thought of was The IT Crowd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg


Same here. I remember thinking it promised so much, but there were always problems with getting it to work. I managed to have someone walk me through how to get Trumpet Winsock to work with a university dialup a few months later and the rest was history.




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