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Which is fine for the purposes of the story—“Internet” and “Web” are now interchangeable in common speech—but also off, because the Internet was not new in 1996/1997; the Internet started in 1969. The World Wide Web, which was built on top of the Internet—and not just any Internet, but the cheaply available Internet on commodity hardware and free software—was only a few years old.<br /><br />All new to me, though. New to people in their 20s. Just as New York City was also new to me. They’re all bundled together in my head, the Web and the city. I’ve been comparing one to the other for decades.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn7Zu3q-kZWwADlit1cUG_rUPRYlWPUxUnQq_dvNxgzEg13iIX0B_n9a1pjQ7sAjwthu5UH0YafKzRTQBGlrfFa5U2VshKK0CyHA5AbmT0QWwF96ktllgwUlq-EazF5rF8wvAuapbZEek/s1600/grim.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn7Zu3q-kZWwADlit1cUG_rUPRYlWPUxUnQq_dvNxgzEg13iIX0B_n9a1pjQ7sAjwthu5UH0YafKzRTQBGlrfFa5U2VshKK0CyHA5AbmT0QWwF96ktllgwUlq-EazF5rF8wvAuapbZEek/s1600/grim.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Once you see one network you see them everywhere. WhiskerNet, for example. WhiskerNet is when you visit someone’s home, or one of the more progressive offices, and their cat nuzzles your shoes. Then you go home—maybe with a train or plane, maybe by walking—and your cats also nuzzle your shoes, sensing the other, distant cat by its smell.<br /><br />The remote cat, you realize, was picking up your cats when it was nuzzling your shoes. They have exchanged cat packets. Allow me to illustrate: <!-- Blogger automated replacement: "https://images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-nN5_DFiGIIA%2FVPdFX1lHxWI%2FAAAAAAAAAaY%2F__UoNktsEqQ%2Fs1600%2Fgrim.jpg&container=blogger&gadget=a&rewriteMime=image%2F*" with "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn7Zu3q-kZWwADlit1cUG_rUPRYlWPUxUnQq_dvNxgzEg13iIX0B_n9a1pjQ7sAjwthu5UH0YafKzRTQBGlrfFa5U2VshKK0CyHA5AbmT0QWwF96ktllgwUlq-EazF5rF8wvAuapbZEek/s1600/grim.jpg" -->

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