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Subject:Re: Capitalization question From:Janice Gelb <janiceg -at- MARVIN -dot- ENG -dot- SUN -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 10 Jul 1998 17:09:23 -0700
slbare -at- juno -dot- com wrote:
>
> I just settled this question for a client with the aid of technical
> research librarians. Here is what has been documented by them:
> [snip]
>
> internet - lower case - copyrighted word by IBM usually referring to a
> group systems (I'm at home so I don't have their training manual for ISP
> in front of me, where it is listed to quote it verbatim.
>
I would very much like to see evidence that this term is
copyrighted: I've never seen that fact mentioned before.
> Internet - capitalized - referring to the World Wide Web as a proper
> noun.
>
While the World Wide Web is accessed through the Internet, the two
terms are not synonymous. The Internet (capital "I") is a large
internet comprising large national backbone nets and local and regional
nets worldwide. It uses the Internet Protocol (both inital capped).
Finally, "World Wide Web" is already a proper noun so why do you need a
different one to refer to it?
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