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Post by espíritu del lago Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:28 pm

that 'Internet' is always spelled with a capital I?
The Internet standards community has historically differentiated between the Internet and an internet (or internetwork), the first being treated as a proper noun with a capital letter, and the latter as a common noun with lower-case first letter. An internet is any internetwork or inter-connected Internet Protocol networks. The distinction is evident in a large number of the Request for Comments documents from the early 1980s, when the transition from the ARPANET to the Internet was in progress, although it was not applied with complete uniformity
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Post by Flamingo Wed Mar 06, 2013 7:42 pm

Actually I did. Internet and World Wide Web are always capitalized. Back in the day, I was a member of the Rocky Mountain Internet Users Group. We had many interesting discussions about proper capitalization and how the 2400 baud modem would affect Web pages and Eudora vs Pine...
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