From: Grant Taylor via COFF <coff@minnie.tuhs.org>
To: coff@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [COFF] Happy birthday, the Internet!
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 16:01:46 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ab18bf5c-1402-ba20-8fb1-f2b648965e08@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2104070714000.44871@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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On 4/6/21 3:20 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> Oh, and it really peeves me when the stupid media call it "the
> internet"; it's a proper noun, hence is capitalised.
/The/ /Internet/ is one of a number of /internets/.
With "the" and the capital I referencing a specific one.
Sadly we are starting see the bifurcation of The Internet.
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Grant. . . .
unix || die
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-06 22:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-06 21:20 Dave Horsfall
2021-04-06 22:01 ` Grant Taylor via COFF [this message]
2021-04-06 22:57 ` Jim Carpenter
2021-04-07 3:38 Rudi Blom
2021-04-07 19:20 ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2021-04-07 4:04 Noel Chiappa
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