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Re: spelling *I*nternet or *i*nternet

> Wired, which through a series of cultural accidents in the
> mid-1990s became the style arbiter of Internet language
> use, admitted yesterday that "there is no earthly reason"
> to capitalize "Internet," "Net" or "the Web." It announced
> it will no longer do so. The capitalization of the words
> grated on proponents and advertisers in the mid- and
> late-1990s, as it lended a sense of desperation and
> true-believer attitude to Powerpoint presentations.
> Arbitrary capitalization of important concepts had been
> relegated to 18th Century letter writers, the cadre of
> insane veteran letters-to-the-editor authors, and -
> until now - internet journalists. The internet, in case
> readers had not yet inferred, is just another medium. Wired
> apologizes.

Actually, I disagree whole-heartedly.  As a Technical Program Manager at
the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA, where the first 
graphical Web server was developed), I've had a lot of experience with the
Internet and its terminology.

Generally speaking, an internet is just a bunch of networks connected
together.  The Internet refers to the publicly accessible one that 
everyone's familiar with, but it's entirely possible that other internets
can be developed.  We're working on creating a new internet to replace 
the old -- how do we differentiate the two?

So I'm going to keep calling it the Internet, Web, and 'Net in anything that
I write.

Just my $.02.  :)

Chris
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