diff --git a/pep-0232.txt b/pep-0232.txt
index 45700ea80..c9172a5c3 100644
--- a/pep-0232.txt
+++ b/pep-0232.txt
@@ -33,8 +33,7 @@ Background
     For example, John Aycock has written a system where docstrings are
     used to define parsing rules[1].  Zope's ZPublisher ORB[2] uses
     docstrings to signal "publishable" methods, i.e. methods that can
-    be called through the web.  And Tim Peters has developed a system
-    called doctest[3], where docstrings actually contain unit tests.
+    be called through the web.
 
     The problem with this approach is that the overloaded semantics
     may conflict with each other.  For example, if we wanted to add a
@@ -229,8 +228,6 @@ References
 
     [2] http://classic.zope.org:8080/Documentation/Reference/ORB
 
-    [3] ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/contrib-09-Dec-1999/System/doctest.py
-    
 
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