internet Vs. Internet
Ach, I've had enough. I've ignored it for a fair few months, but now it's really starting to grate. Wired has had it's say, even Zeldman has something to contribute, and it seems to be spreading. Far be it from me to place myself in the same lofty sphere as these web stalwarts, but they seem to have missed an important point about the capitalisation of the word internet, and like all good things in life, it's rather simple.
Basically, an internet is a network of (usually otherwise incompatible) networks. For example - if you were having a LAN party and you had a bunch of PCs and Macs running a TCP/IP network running alongside an AppleShare network, but all playing in the same game, however you manage it, you'd have an internet.
The Internet happens to be quite a well known and rather large scale implementation of an internet, but is unfortunately one which suffers from a rather poor choice of name.
An internet. The Internet. Simple, eh?
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July 23rd, 2005 - 18:52
The Internet?
I don’t believe it exists.
: P
April 14th, 2010 - 17:23
very good definition.thank you.the capital ‘I’ is for the www and internet is a lan? right?