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<p>It is largely a matter of personal whim. (I tend to be somewhat
of an iconoclast.) I tend to think of the issue of capitalization
the same way that Gulliver viewed the dispute between Lilliput and
Blefuscu over which end of an egg was the proper end be cracked
open.<br>
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<p>I tend to still use the singular "the" before "internet" but even
from "the beginning' I worked with ARPAnet near-clones that were
separated from the more visible networks and never really felt a
need to elevate one or the other to a level that suggested that
there were no others. (That notion of separation and
non-uniqueness was accentuated by my contact with military
networks that were nearly 100% the same technology as the then
nascent internet but were highly isolated.)<br>
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<p>I would note, however, that in my note on where the internet
might be going
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cavebear.com/cavebear-blog/internet_quo_vadis/">https://www.cavebear.com/cavebear-blog/internet_quo_vadis/</a>) I
posited another crank of the evolution of the net (which began
pretty much as one network, then became a network of networks) to
be a network of internets (or a network of networks of networks.)</p>
<p>This fracturing of what once could deserve the capital 'I' of
Internet has me greatly concerned - I am a fan of the end to end
principle - but also reconciled to the fact that social and
economic forces often overcome technical elegance.</p>
<p> --karl--<br>
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respect, and hoping not to cause a ruckus, may I ask how
you came to drop the capitalization of Internet, or did
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