[ih] Internet or internet i

Joe Touch touch at strayalpha.com
Mon Mar 11 18:52:29 PDT 2019


You mean the “associated press”? 

If they get to revise our preferred capitalization, we do too ;-)

Joe

> On Mar 11, 2019, at 10:27 AM, Vint Cerf <vint at google.com> wrote:
> 
> I am in agreement with John D on this - also Associated Press has chosen to cease making the distinction.
> i suppose only engineers who understand that the "private internet" need not be part of the public one
> and still use the same protocols (and address space!) will be offended (I admit, I am one of them).
> 
> v
> 
> 
>> On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 11:06 AM John Day <jeanjour at comcast.net> wrote:
>> But I think Noel’s distinction still holds with the public internet being “Internet” and all others or the concept in general being ‘internet’.
>> 
>> The problem is the New York Times has decided that ‘Internet’ is spelled ‘internet’.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mar 11, 2019, at 10:07, Scott Brim <scott.brim at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Noel: all true, but it's over. It's not ours to call anymore. 
>>> 
>>> (The one I really can't get used to is "emails".)
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