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I just found an answer to this yesterday: "An internet (lowercase “i”) is any collection of separate physical networks, interconnected by a common protocol, to
by morninj 15y ago
I just found an answer to this yesterday:
"An internet (lowercase “i”) is any collection of separate physical networks, interconnected by a common protocol, to form a single logical network. The Internet (uppercase “I”) is the worldwide collection of interconnected networks, which grew out of the original ARPANET, that uses Internet Protocol (IP) to link the various physical networks into a single logical network. In this book, both “internet” and “Internet” refer to networks that are interconnected by TCP/IP."
http://www.morninj.com/2012/03/internet-or-internet/ http://www.morninj.com/2012/03/internet-or-internet/
- bithive123 15y agoI like this approach; "I can't access the Internet, my internet connection is down."
- mirceagoia 15y agoYes, I like this too.
- _delirium 15y agoI don't think I've seen an author in the past 10 years use lowercase-internet to mean interconnected networks that are not The Internet, though. I've seen it for some variants, like talking about "internetworking" or "internetworked" facilities, but it's just too confusing to refer to "an internet" when you mean 3 IBM sites networked together. The term "intranet" is starting to become a common replacement, though; increasingly any network that is not The Internet is being described as such, even if consists of multiple internetworked physical networks. So in the IBM-sites example, I think it would be more common to talk about the "IBM intranet", even if it's global and encompasses multiple networks, than to talk about the "IBM internet".
- DanBC 15y agoBut isn't intranet the right word if those global multiple networks are internal to IBM and use TCP/IP? Or have I misunderstood and they're not a proper intranet, but a mish-mash of intranets and the Internet?