From: Gaven Miller Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet Subject: [alt.folklore.computers] Re: Rewriting the history of computers Date: 8 May 1998 12:57:29 +0200 Subject: Re: Rewriting the history of computers From: linley@netcom.com (Bruce James Robert Linley) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers In ye olden post Pete Fenelon spake... >James Hague wrote: >> Any other fun stories? > >"Usenet was created by AOL" seems to be a fairly popular one. The RS-232 serial standard was named for it's creator- Radio Shack. I recall a radioshack sales drois who adamantly insisted upon this.