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18/08/2004 08:22:23
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
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I think we should ask Al Gore <g>.

>On the UT news, there is one about a company that thinks it is more logical to write Internet in lowercase (internet). This doesn't make much sense to me (although I did have a tendency to do the same, at the beginning...). Proper names should be capitalized, and the Internet is the name of the global network. It is the Internet, not an internet. Now, if we started to work with different large networks, and call each of them "an internet", the situation would change - but that is not the case now.
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>The case is similar for the Web (meaning, of course, the www). Once again, we have the Web, not a web.
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>Any opinions?
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
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