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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 5080907" data-attributes="member: 15538">No, I was talking about JohnRTroy, too. And I do not.First of all, as I have already noted, it's really difficult to Google this topic. If I try to screen out many obvious distractors, I end up with a lot of links to articles about the C&D letter itself, which is not helpful.Second, the situation was very different before 1997. In 1996, I was still in college, and I was talking on MUDs and MUSHes at 2400 baud on my modem. Usenet was Usenet. For something like this, I would be thinking more BBS, which is not searchable on Google Groups. Third, in those by-gone days of the Internet, a spreadsheet or any piece of software was a pretty good-sized download on a 24.4 modem. Starting in 1997, modems started getting a lot faster, a lot quicker, as did web sites. It's a whole different world.So the fact that it's hard to Google any references before 1997 does not mean a lot. It would be like trying to track some fad by watching recordings of TV broadcasts from 1949.I didn't use that word.</blockquote>