Invention of the Word "Internet"

Circa 1973
Cover of the book, Nerds: A Brief History of the Internet by Stephen Segaller

Around 1973 Vinton G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn invented the word Internet as an abbreviation for the "inter-networking of networks" (Segaller, Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet [1998] 111).

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