From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 09:55:57 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Internet! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 7 April 2017 at 00:48, Dave Horsfall 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.