I haven’t kept a log of how many times I have come up with a great name for something and come to find that it is already taken.

We were sitting around the kitchen table and I said the word Hinternet for no particular reason. My son asked me what I meant and I explained it as it came to me. The Hinternet is a web of connected computers way out in the wilderness where there are no human inhabitants. They are not connected to the Internet, that would be weird.

When I googled the word, I found out that people duct tape Linksys routers and ham radios together to create crappy DIY long distance wireless networks. At first I thought this might appeal to crack pot revolutionaries, until I read further an saw that it is very hard to have secure communications over these radio signals. I think my idea is better.