Tuesday, April 05, 2016
dumb idea
hmm.
The early decision to treat the term as a proper noun, according to Wired, was meant to distinguish the worldwide network of connected computers from the generic term for any smaller connection of networks. But the term has come to exclusively define the former. Today the U.S. government, most news organization and the largest technology companies all use the capitalized word. The AP also said it would begin lowercasing "Web" on all references. It wasn't until 2010 and 2011 that the AP started treating "website" as one word and took the hyphen out of "email."Generic term for smaller collection of computers? That was always intranet, not internet. Confusing, so most people ended up saying LAN. Corporations tend to have brand-ish names for their internal arrangements. Nobody ever used internet, UC or LC, for a small net. It always meant the total Web. The Internet and the Web are not just gadgets, they are places. They are capitalized for the same reason that cities and nations are capitalized.
Labels: Language update
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