Re: [microsound] [ot] [politics] "that internet thing"

[chthonic streams <chthonic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> At 12:19 PM -0400 10/13/04, Jonathan Hughes wrote:
>
> > I may be wrong, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone these
> > days who refers to anything other than the Internet (capital I) as an/the
> > internet (lowercase i). I would think that LAN and WAN would be the terms
> > of choice.
>
> I think you're right. The generic use of "internet" (lower case) is 
> now mostly historic, though the capitalization of the global version 
> remains preferred usages (as does Web, though this is fading).

unfortunately not with proofreaders and copy editors.  they also 
insist on referring to this mode of communication as "E-mail".


d.

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