Dear Future Gamer

I've been happily reading Future Gamer for a couple of months now. However, I was shocked and amazed to read in issue 34's article about online gaming that, "The game was connected to the ArpaNet - the early university run predecessor of the Internet - and US students were immediately hooked."

ArpaNet, as in the Advanced Research Project Agency, i.e. the US military's research facility? It makes ArpaNet sound like the US version of JANET. Sure, some research was carried out at universities, but it wasn't your regular students who were on it, it was defence researchers!

How can a writer in an Internet-based mag, published by a company which publishes a number of Internet-specific magazines, make such a guff? And how come it wasn't picked up by the editor? The ironic thing is that the quote I give above was in bold, as though to make the error stand out.

What's my point? Well, I kind of trusted you before to inform me about stuff I didn't know about. Now I don't. Sort it out!

Rob

FG: Yikes! Now that Keith has finished his multiplayer gaming article he's been shot. How dare he make such a mistake?! Blimey! And how did it get past me? I know everything about ArpaNet, JANET, the Internet, the Intranet, the Extranet and football! But seriously Rob, give us a break. A small error does not a good feature ruin, and we don't make mistakes on purpose, but we're all human.