I think it's too late for that kind of prescriptivism. "Internet" is not a technical term anymore; it's within the top 1,500 words of the English language acco

I think it's too late for that kind of prescriptivism. "Internet" is not a technical term anymore; it's within the top 1,500 words of the English language according to [1], and its meaning is subject to evolution like any other word. Almost everyone knows it, and almost no one would use it to refer to private networks linked between multiple physical sites (say, SIPRnet, or a CDN's network, as considered separately from the larger network it's embedded into) - including experienced engineers, unless they were being pedantic. At some point the original definition is no more meaningful than an insistence that "data" should be plural, or to never split an infinitive. [1] http://www.wordfrequency.info/free.asp?s=y http://www.wordfrequency.info/free.asp?s=y