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<p>Wait one. I thought it was now "Intertubes."</p>
<p>Miles<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/11/19 2:50 PM, Jack Haverty wrote:<br>
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<p>Perhaps there are legal aspects involved? The word "internet"
is a noun, but "Internet" is a proper noun. Is "Internet"
trademarked, or copyrighted, or protected by such legal means --
somewhere in the world?</p>
<p>I suspect there are zillions of things like patent documents
with "internet" and/or "Internet" in them, fodder for lawyers
and courts to argue about for decades.</p>
<p>You wouldn't believe how many hours I spent as an expert
witness/consultant just arguing about the definitions of
"program" and "reprogram", what exactly the difference was, and
how the definitions changed over time and contexts.</p>
<p>I wonder when we'll see facebooks as well as Facebook, and why
not The Facebook?<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/11/19 10:27 AM, Vint Cerf wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I am in agreement with John D on this - also
Associated Press has chosen to cease making the distinction.<br>
i suppose only engineers who understand that the "private
internet" need not be part of the public one
<div>and still use the same protocols (and address space!)
will be offended (I admit, I am one of them).</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at
11:06 AM John Day <<a href="mailto:jeanjour@comcast.net"
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<div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">But I think Noel’s
distinction still holds with the public internet being
“Internet” and all others or the concept in general being
‘internet’.
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<div>The problem is the New York Times has decided that
‘Internet’ is spelled ‘internet’.</div>
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<div>On Mar 11, 2019, at 10:07, Scott Brim <<a
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all true, but it's over. It's not ours to call
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style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">(The
one I really can't get used to is "emails".)</div>
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