A little rant.. the more blogs I read the more of a sense of humour failure is brewing about the spelling of the word “Internet”.
It’s “Internet” not “internet”… as in THE Internet. There is only one.
..assuming you forget about the Internet2 academic elitists (“my pipe is bigger than yours”) and the poor misguided souls that are building their own playground using IPv6 
Long live the Internet.
Nope, not anymore. I think everyone jumped on the bandwagon when Wired.com made a big formal decision to drop the capital ‘I’.
It’s actually pretty typical for new words to be introduced with a capital and for it to be dropped later.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64596,00.html?tw=newsletter_topstories_html
The Wired (s/w/t/) people seem to think the Internet is “just another medium”.. and their main aim seems to be to “write consistently”. That’s all groovy for hippies and journalists.
I think the Internet is the (proper) name of a network. A very big network that includes any device that talks TCP/IP connected to the Internet. There is only one network that can be called the Internet.
Radio stations, Television stations, The Internet.
Their logic is a bit lame and inconsistent anyway.. why keep “World Wide Web”? ..because there is only one.
Long live the Internet
PS. digital culture hippies and hairdressers can be evacuated on the next spaceship to Mars.. grab your orange bootleg-cut spacesuits and blue sunglasses at the airlock.
Hi Joe, maybe it is inadvertant to use small i – my name sometimes loses it’s capital and i have been known to eschew capital i’s all together when in a hurry. No offence meant in my laziness, I am in the big I Internet camp in principle as it is THE one and only. naulene
naaaah… it’s right up there with radio and television