Re: We capitalize place names

[Lee Hunter <lee -dot- hunter -at- hum -dot- com>]

Zola wrote:


> Under this convention, you should not capitalize internet at all 
unless you were speaking of a specific internet like the World Wide Web.


But when I say "the Internet" I am actually talking about a very 
specific internet. An internet is a group of interconnected networks and 
 what we call "the Internet" is just the biggest and best known of these.

I can see a bit of a parallel with "the public telephone system" but as 
others have pointed out, the Internet is something more since it is 
widely considered to be a virtual place, like a world or a universe onto 
itself.

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