I didn't know this until Rick Broadhead wrote to me asking for the source of the quote: it took me ages to run down, because, although the Independent was one of the first papers in Britain to know anything about the Internet, and certainly the first to give its journalists email addresses, all that got smashed up in 1995, when the paper was bought by the Mirror Group and moved to Canary Wharf. So it is not at all easy discovering what I may or may not have written in 1992.
In the end, I discovered this
A brief glimpse of the way the world was in 1992, when it was possible to write an article about the Internet which nowhere mentioned Mosaic, Netscape, or Microsoft. It is also worth noting that the newspaper at the time was in the grip of a lunatic style edict which said that we were not allowed to print "The internet" but only "Internet".
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