pubwan is a neologism coined by Lorraine (Lori) Lee on September 5, 2000. It is an unapostrophied contraction of "public WAN," or "public wide area network." Lori's original intent in coining this term was a desire to collapse into one word a description of a naïve hypothetical attempt to re-create what Lori often refers to as "Internet Classic," which is to say the pre-Web Internet. Bemoaning the apparent loss of a cypherspace and cypherculture in which gratuitous consumption of bandwidth was strongly (but "paradoxically" not authoritatively) discouraged, Lori wanted to suggest a strategy for overcoming the seemingly planned obsolescence of low bandwidth communication technology. Being of a generally planning and project-oriented mentality, she suggested an openly collaborating consortium