Names for an ATL equivalent of the modern Internet

An ATL internet analogue seems to be a convenient enough thing to have in any post 1900 timeline extrapolated far enough into the future to develop transistor based computing. But what would it be called then? All I have so far are some generic cyberpunkish names (datanet, dataspace, etc) so I was wondering what ideas you all might have.
 
well...

The interwebs?
The Grid?

And I could easily see multiple, incompatible, nets growing--perhaps lager on, with some forced, clunky compatibility. Or possibly DESIGNED not to be able to communicate with each other, for political or economic reasons...
 
And I could easily see multiple, incompatible, nets growing--perhaps lager on, with some forced, clunky compatibility. Or possibly DESIGNED not to be able to communicate with each other, for political or economic reasons...

Definitely a possibility in a world divided amongst a handful of great powers rather than a single hyperpower/two superpowers. That gets me thinking... what of a non-Anglophone dominated Internet analogue?
 
In one of my Afrikaner stories, I have it referenced as "the World Wide Web."

(That term replaces the Internet as the popular term.)
 
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The Grid, the Battery (battery originally meant a group of any large bits of equipment, and you can imagine the first network being a group of large computers all in one room), the World Tree/Yggdrasil/similar reference (because of the branches).
 
Well if the inventor decides to be knowingly retro and takes inspiration from Antwerp's analogue Wikipedia of the Edwardian era - they could call it the Mundaneum

Just going to trawl the Mundie'.

Wierder things have slipped into popular vocabulary. For instance the Internet, if read objectively is no more normal a name than any stock cyberpunk stand-in, its just ours.

I do like Weave though - you could go weaving online.
 
That gets me thinking... what of a non-Anglophone dominated Internet analogue?

In OTL, the French have had a videotex system called Minitel since 1982. It had a lot of the features of OTL's internet back in the '80s (message boards, phone directories, plane and train ticket purchasing, even e-commerce), and its success was part of the reason why the internet took so long to take root in France.

Maybe "Minitel" could be used as the name for the internet in a Francophone-dominated TL?
 
In OTL, the French have had a videotex system called Minitel since 1982. It had a lot of the features of OTL's internet back in the '80s (message boards, phone directories, plane and train ticket purchasing, even e-commerce), and its success was part of the reason why the internet took so long to take root in France.

Maybe "Minitel" could be used as the name for the internet in a Francophone-dominated TL?

The CBC and the BBC both had something like that as well. The CBC system could be found in parts of western Canada as late as 1995.
 
For a German-dominated TL I had thought about "Weltnetz", then I found out that OTL German neonazis use this term for the real internet. Then I changed it to "Weltsystem".
 
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