From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Internet!
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 09:55:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJfiPzyA631KHoweuDsvKBKMzcBMo-XoTw0hR9G1K0rUcgScVw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1704071441560.24640@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On 7 April 2017 at 00:48, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> The Internet (spelled with a capital "I", please, as it is a proper noun)
> was born in 1969, when RFC-1 got published; it described the IMP and
> ARPAnet.
>
> As I said at a club lecture once, there are many internets, but only one
> Internet.
From the OED entry of Internet, n. (with a capital I):
"Originally (in form internet): a computer network consisting of or
connecting a number of smaller networks, such as two or more local
area networks connected by a shared communications protocol; spec.
such a network (called ARPAnet) operated by the U.S. Defense
Department. In later use (usu. the Internet): the global computer
network (which evolved out of ARPAnet) providing a variety of
information and communication facilities to its users, and consisting
of a loose confederation of interconnected networks which use
standardized communication protocols; (also) the information available
on this network."
I have seen -- and written it -- abbreviated as "the 'Net". Is this
common about the globe?
N.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-07 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-07 4:48 Dave Horsfall
2017-04-07 4:58 ` Warren Toomey
2017-04-07 5:13 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-07 6:57 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-04-08 5:13 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-04-09 0:09 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-04-09 2:42 ` Jason Stevens
2017-04-10 5:54 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-04-07 13:55 ` Nemo [this message]
2018-04-06 20:56 Dave Horsfall
2018-04-06 23:10 ` Nemo
2018-04-06 23:19 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-04-06 23:56 ` Kurt H Maier
2018-04-07 4:54 Rudi Blom
2018-04-07 15:21 ` Clem Cole
2018-04-07 12:50 Noel Chiappa
2018-04-07 14:34 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-04-07 14:44 ` Clem Cole
2018-04-08 23:34 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-04-09 0:06 ` Clem Cole
2018-04-09 1:16 ` Kurt H Maier
2018-04-08 23:34 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-04-09 14:52 Noel Chiappa
2018-04-09 15:01 ` Erik E. Fair
2018-04-09 14:57 Noel Chiappa
2018-04-09 15:37 Noel Chiappa
2018-04-10 18:32 ` Clem Cole
2018-04-10 19:11 ` Clem Cole
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