Pilot fish is hired to create an intranet for this manufacturing business, and there’s one critical requirement he’s given when he takes the job: He can’t call it by its name.

“I was told to under no circumstances ever call it ‘intranet,'” fish says. “I was told to call it ‘I-Web.’

“Turns out that one of the family members that ran the place was a bit technologically ignorant, in addition to being highly paranoid. When the head of IT suggested that we develop an intranet, she went ballistic, making it known in a loud voice that the internet would never be allowed in! Why, all that porn, all that subversion, all those hackers!

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