Comments on: Capitalization and the Internet http://lbrandy.com/blog/2009/04/capitalization-and-the-internet/ { on programming and the internets, every monday } Thu, 17 May 2012 07:59:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Pman http://lbrandy.com/blog/2009/04/capitalization-and-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-5209 Pman Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:46:32 +0000 http://lbrandy.com/blog/?p=730#comment-5209 Your little tagline (on programming and the internets, every monday) needs a capital 'I'. Also an 'M' while you're at it. Your little tagline (on programming and the internets, every monday)
needs a capital ‘I’. Also an ‘M’ while you’re at it.

]]> By: Anonymous http://lbrandy.com/blog/2009/04/capitalization-and-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-5208 Anonymous Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:42:58 +0000 http://lbrandy.com/blog/?p=730#comment-5208 The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of Tubes. And if you don't understand, those Tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that Tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material. The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of Tubes. And if you don’t understand, those Tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that Tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

]]> By: fa http://lbrandy.com/blog/2009/04/capitalization-and-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-5158 fa Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:45:56 +0000 http://lbrandy.com/blog/?p=730#comment-5158 Blessed be our languages that demand capitalization of nouns anyway :P But thanks for the hint, this thought never even occured to me. Blessed be our languages that demand capitalization of nouns anyway :P
But thanks for the hint, this thought never even occured to me.

]]> By: Bob http://lbrandy.com/blog/2009/04/capitalization-and-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-5094 Bob Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:40:49 +0000 http://lbrandy.com/blog/?p=730#comment-5094 To continue the astronomy theme, you can scoop up a shovelful of earth and then go up in a shuttle and orbit the Earth. To continue the astronomy theme, you can scoop up a shovelful of earth and then go up in a shuttle and orbit the Earth.

]]> By: Aaron Davies http://lbrandy.com/blog/2009/04/capitalization-and-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-5064 Aaron Davies Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:28:09 +0000 http://lbrandy.com/blog/?p=730#comment-5064 "An internet", in the eighties sense, is not really the same thing we mean by "intranet" today. If we had to recoin the term from scratch, I expect it would come out "metanet", from "meta-network", i.e. network of networks--"an internet", properly speaking, referred to any network connecting two pre-existing networks; ARPANET was the one that evolved into Internet, and when all the competition (BITNET, various X.25 networks, pre-NNTP Usenet, etc.) died off or became assimilated, "Internet" became "the internet". BTW, I did some cursory personal research into the history of the terminology, looking mostly at the use of "the" with "internet", and found some military networking specs from the late sixties or early seventies which used the phrase "the internet" in the other possible sense. E.g., "once network A and B are connected, the internet behaves as follows". It was a bit odd to see used that way, though of course perfectly reasonable given the meaning it had then. Also BTW, the Sun surely counts, even if it's not quite as common to refer to other stars as "other suns" (yet?) as it is to talk about other moons. You might like http://www.languagelog.com/ “An internet”, in the eighties sense, is not really the same thing we mean by “intranet” today. If we had to recoin the term from scratch, I expect it would come out “metanet”, from “meta-network”, i.e. network of networks–”an internet”, properly speaking, referred to any network connecting two pre-existing networks; ARPANET was the one that evolved into Internet, and when all the competition (BITNET, various X.25 networks, pre-NNTP Usenet, etc.) died off or became assimilated, “Internet” became “the internet”.

BTW, I did some cursory personal research into the history of the terminology, looking mostly at the use of “the” with “internet”, and found some military networking specs from the late sixties or early seventies which used the phrase “the internet” in the other possible sense. E.g., “once network A and B are connected, the internet behaves as follows”. It was a bit odd to see used that way, though of course perfectly reasonable given the meaning it had then.

Also BTW, the Sun surely counts, even if it’s not quite as common to refer to other stars as “other suns” (yet?) as it is to talk about other moons.

You might like http://www.languagelog.com/

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