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In formal usage, ''Internet'' is traditionally written with a Capital first letter. The Internet Society , the Internet Engineering Task Force , the Internet Corporation For Assigned Names And Numbers , the World Wide Web Consortium , and several other Internet-related organizations all use this convention in their publications. In English grammar, Proper Nouns are often capitalized, although some analogous things, which 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. Most newspapers, newswires, periodicals, and technical journals also capitalize the term. Examples include the '' New York Times '', the '' Associated Press '', '' Time '', '' The Times Of India '', '' Hindustan Times '' and '' Communications Of The ACM ''. In other cases, the first letter is often written Small (''internet''), and many people are not aware of any convention of using a capital letter. Some argue that ''internet'' is the correct form. Since 2000, a significant number of publications have switched to using ''internet''. Among them are '' The Economist '', the '' Financial Times '', '' The Times '' (of London), and the '' Sydney Morning Herald ''. As of 2005, most publications using ''internet'' appear to be located outside of North America although one American news source, '' Wired News '', has adopted the lowercase spelling. In the Internet standards community, which includes the IETF , there was a theory for many years that "the Internet" (capital I) referred to the Internet , while "an internet" (lowercase i) referred to any system for connecting multiple networks together, including the use of Internet technologies for this purpose inside private networks. This subtle distinction seems to have disappeared from common usage. |
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