# What is IT?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it/50086>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 15, 2001, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it/50086 "2001-01-15T04:37:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![lurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a9a28c/32.png) [@lurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurch)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2001, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it/50086/1 "2001-01-15T04:37:29Z")

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What Is ‘IT’? Book Proposal Heightens Intrigue About Secret Invention Touted as Bigger Than the Internet or PC

Here’s the link for the article.  
[http://www.inside.com/jcs/Story?article\_id=20218&pod\_id=8](http://www.inside.com/jcs/Story?article_id=20218&pod_id=8)

So, what is IT?

Lurch

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**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2001, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it/50086/2 "2001-01-15T04:39:08Z")

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[http://www.geocities.com/ferret11220192/It.jpg](http://www.geocities.com/ferret11220192/It.jpg)

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**Author:** ![RAWisSYDNEY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4491bb/32.png) [@RAWisSYDNEY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RAWisSYDNEY)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2001, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it/50086/3 "2001-01-15T04:50:57Z")

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thats not, IT.

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**Author:** ![nowalls99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e68b1a/32.png) [@nowalls99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nowalls99)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2001, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it/50086/4 "2001-01-15T05:10:14Z")

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As Scott Gordon posted on the board at the link in the OP, here’s a link to a possibility.

[http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/4248/stirlingengine.html](http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/4248/stirlingengine.html)

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2001, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it/50086/5 "2001-01-15T05:34:11Z")

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Since there are about a dozen topics extant on this particular piece of media hype, including at least two in this forum, I’m closing this thread.