Over here it's known as the Scunthorpe test. Scunthorpe being a town in the middle of nowhere, whose name was largely not problematic absent computer instring searches. We all knew it as just one of many English towns whose name ended in "thorp[e]".
There was a story going round in the 90s that AOL had written to the town council telling them it would be necessary for the town to have a different name for internet purposes.
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Date: 2015-04-09 02:11 am (UTC)There was a story going round in the 90s that AOL had written to the town council telling them it would be necessary for the town to have a different name for internet purposes.