Re: capitalization of 'web'

Subject: Re: capitalization of 'web'
From: Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>
To: Karen Murri <kmurri -at- comcast -dot- net>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:20:18 -0500

Karen Murri wrote:

Sorry - I just don't get how internet and web are proper names, at least
used as I usually see them used.

All right. But you seem to be willing to be educated.


Names of what separable entity? Forgive my
(probable) ignorance, but they aren't corporate entities, are they?

There can be many internets. That is, there can me many instances of computers connected in complex networks that cross company boundaries. Private networks exist, such as the banking network that moves money between banks instantaneously. However, you do not have access to all of those networks from your home PC. And if you did, you could not send a post to techwr-l by using one of those private networks. The only network publicly available to all of us, without restriction, is the unique Internet. That's the name we call that _particular_ network. If we were characters in a science fiction tale, we might choose to give it a different name, such as "Jerry" (or "God," in the case of one story I can think of). But we're not characters in a science fiction story. We're here, in this world, where the name we've all agreed to call this particular network is "Internet." That's its name. All the other internets have their own names.

Similarly, there is only a single World Wide Web. It was invented by Tim Berners-Lee, who is still alive and kicking. The World Wide Web Consortium ("W3C"), a body that Berners-Lee helped found and to which he handed control, sets the rules for the way the Web works. There may be other webs but, again, you don't have access to them unless you are member of a private network on which one of them operates.

Now if you want to argue that corporate software running on a Web server and accessed by employees through Web browsers are not part of the World Wide Web and therefore can be referenced with lowercase terminology, I could probably support your position; however, if


They
don't refer to some particular person or organization, do they? Maybe they
do, and I just don't know it.

See above.


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