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[claudiometer]

Now that I can have everyone's attention, a little good news.

Since Jules and I both needed the occasional break from the Bronze Age, I'm proud to announce Liminal Intranet is now up and running. Even I'm not good enough to hook it up to proper Internet, as that would involve punching dimensional holes that are probably beyond our reach, but it should at least be a boon to Project Infopool.

Servers are in my rooms, so they won't be going anywhere even if I do. You'll have to provide your own computers, though.

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[howexciting]

... how does that differ from the internet? The Latin inter- is between, among... the Latin intra- is within, or inside.

But isn't the internet within a computer? I thought you modern people had just corrupted the Latin word to mean something else.

... as in caveat, which is used to disclose a minor detail and no longer a strong warning to someone, or as in alter ego, which implies a dark side of one's personality instead of a close friend, or as in quorum, which you have somehow changed into a noun, of all things.

[Look who still is having trouble with computers. He probably still thinks tiny people live inside them.]

[claudiometer]

Technically the Internet is a network connecting many computers, that can be accessed from pretty much wherever. This one's an intranet because, while it does that part, it only works inside Liminal Space. Interdimensional wifi is a bit beyond my capabilities.

[howexciting]

... that... that actually makes a bit of sense.

[What the hell? Modern English never makes sense.]

But then why not call the internet "extranet"? Since it is accessible outside of any particular computer.

[claudiometer]

Don't ask me, dude, I didn't name it.