[ih] Internet or internet i

[Brian E Carpenter]

The chicago manual of style has adopted the same heresy. Think of them the next time you fly via the o'hare airport, which is in the illinois.

If vladimir gets his way, I suppose people will realise that there's a difference between the russian internet and the other one.

But maybe we should blame it all on stev or kre for starting with the lower case? I do have a message from stev sent in 1993 that ends:

> stev knowles
> one of the Internet Area Directors
> stev at ftp.com

so he did have a shift key ;-)

Regards
   Brian

On 12-Mar-19 14:55, Joe Touch wrote:
> FYI - this was an issue a long time ago, when a banking company claimed ownership of the word for their ATM (money, not cells) system. There was some deal with the ISOC, but I don’t recall the details.
> 
> I still use Internet to refer to the one that uses IANA-assigned addresses and ICANN-coordinated DNS. Everything else that uses IP protocols is - to me - an internet, and always will be.
> 
> I do understand that the associated press don’t understand the difference, but that IMO just makes them both ignorant and wrong, not right.
> 
> Joe
> 
> On Mar 11, 2019, at 11:50 AM, Jack Haverty <jack at 3kitty.org <mailto:jack at 3kitty.org>> wrote:
> 
>> 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?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I wonder when we'll see facebooks as well as Facebook, and why not The Facebook?
>>
>> /Jack
>>
>>
>> On 3/11/19 10:27 AM, Vint Cerf 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 <mailto: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 <mailto:scott.brim at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>>>     Noel: all true, but it's over. It's not ours to call anymore. 
>>>>
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