Darknet: The Internet You Didn't Know About

[jbor at bigpond.com]

[...]
AOL's attempts to keep Frankel down didn't work. A little later, he 
created another storm when he launched WASTE. An acronym for We Await 
Silent Tristero's Empire, it was inspired by the underground postal 
system described in Thomas Pynchon's book, The Crying of Lot 49. [...]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1317509.cms

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