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When did “the Internet” become “the internet?”

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Re: When did “the Internet” become “the internet?”

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. AOL was its own independent proprietary network, closer to a very large BBS, with email, chat, and content standards. It bridged to the Internet, as many networks at the time did (and many others did not). The World Wide Web is a specific set of protocols (mostly: HTML and HTTPS, most would now include CSS and JS a well as other stsndards), which can run across the Internet or other networks , e.g., a disconected…

Oh, I might be misremembering because I was very small but I could have sworn I used AOL as an ISP and used web browsers (maybe Netscape Navigator?) to browse the web on AOL (maybe version 5 or 6?) in addition to their own weird portal thing which in my very vague memory was a lot like what you are describing. Is my memory completely false here? It's very possible I'm conflating things from earlier in the 90s with th…

Ah, I think I've finally found it - or at least I've found what appears to be that by a John _Quarterman_.

Re: When did “the Internet” become “the internet?”

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As far as I am concerned, it’s a place and capitalized, except if it’s used as an adjective.

Why, then, does it have a definite article? One does not catch a flight to "the New York". (Some place names in English do have "the", but then it is capitalised, for example "The Pines" or "The Hague".)

But not the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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