[AusNOG] SMH: "No room at the internet"

[Karl Kloppenborg]

Those two clips have officially made my morning :P

Cheers!
Karl Kloppenborg
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On 19/05/2010, at 9:56, Bevan Slattery wrote:

> 
> 
>> All up, it's enough to make you cringe (starting with the 
>> lack of a capital I in the subject, it goes downhill from 
>> there), but there are some good quotes from Geoff Huston...
> 
> Sheesh.  The thing that makes me cringe a bit is people who still insist
> that internet should start with a capital "I".  As the Wikipedia entry
> found here
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_capitalization_conventions
> acknowledges 
> 
> "Critics of the usage as a proper noun argue that other things that are
> unique yet distributed, such as "the power grid", "the telephone
> network", and even "the sky", are not considered proper nouns, and are
> thus not capitalized. Since at least 2002 it has been theorized that
> Internet has been changing from a proper noun to a generic term.[4]
> Words for new technologies, such as Phonograph in the 19th century, are
> sometimes capitalized at first, later becoming uncapitalized.[4] It was
> suggested as early as 1999 that Internet might, like some other commonly
> used proper nouns, lose its capital letter."
> 
> You will note that the SMH along with the Economist, Financial Times and
> the Guardian also use the non-capitalised version.
> 
> IMHO to raise the 'internet' as proper noun fails to acknowledge the
> work and investment by this exact industry to make it generic or
> ubiquitous.  For me the same applies to [E]ethernet.  If you want to use
> capitals, then go ahead.  If you don't, don't.  But don't pick people up
> for using lower case "i", because you'll be in the the same category as
> Jen from the IT Crowd http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTBsm0LzSP0 or
> those who doubted Kyle on South Park
> http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/166192 :)
> 
> Cheers
> 
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