stackyFACTSInstead of some visionary cyberpunk author, the most famous idiom for browsing the web was actually invented by a librarian in 1992. She needed a snappy metaphor for an article she was writing, forever cursing us to use aquatic terminology to describe staring at a glowing rectangle for twelve hours a day.
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