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From: jordan@zooks.ads.com (Jordan Hayes)
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Subject: Re: What is "the Internet"
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Date: 9 Nov 88 02:00:25 GMT
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Mike Waters <waters@dover.UUCP> writes:

	I see the term 'the Internet' used freely in news items, but
	never a definition of it.

It doesn't really have a formal definition ... like lots of things, it
simply evolved.  I think the {I,i} distinction comes from the notion
that the Internet represents all IP-speaking swamps (initially
connected to the `ARPA-Internet') that can internetwork today, and
internet is a generic term for any n-networks that are connected (n >
1) ...

Example:

	I am on the Internet.  You may have an internet where you
	work.

/jordan