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Very trendy bar, Milan.

William Safire on the evolution of the word yahoo:

In the 1990's, yahoo! was taken over by the Internet server of that name. Its Web site explains that the company's founders, David Filo and Jerry Yang, drolly designated their server "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" ... Though the company preserved the exclamation mark in its title...yahoo's identification with the popular server has overtaken its sense as a cry of a man in the saddle.

So it seems that "Internet server" is just another way of saying "Internet company." And Internet servers, especially the popular ones, have their own "Web sites."

Ah, the richness of our modern language.

Absolute Powerpoint. I had heard about this New Yorker piece but never got around to reading it. It's good. Via Jason.

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