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[-] cobysev@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

[...] the Internet (it was a written with a capital I back then)

Back then, an internet (lower case "i") was a small internal network of computers that communicated with each other.

The World Wide Web, being a massive collection of computers across the globe that are interconnected, quickly earned the title of "THE Internet" (upper-case "i"), to differentiate it from smaller isolated networks.

"World Wide Web" turned out to be a mouthful to say, so we replaced it with "the Internet" instead. Although most websites still start with "www" to represent their global reach.

Nowadays, we've stopped using the word "internet" to describe smaller networks, so the word mostly just refers to the global network. And as such, if doesn't really matter if you capitalize it or not.

However, I was there when the web became accessible to the public and the nomenclature has stuck, so I always capitalize the Internet when referring to it.

[-] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 23 points 1 week ago

Back then, an internet (lower case "i") was a small internal network of computers that communicated with each other.

That is an intranet, not internet, and is still applicable as a term. You just hear people say LAN more these days.

"World Wide Web" turned out to be a mouthful to say, so we replaced it with "the Internet" instead. Although most websites still start with "www" to represent their global reach.

The world wide web was always just one part of the internet, specifically the portion supported by http. Ftp, email, etc existed then as well, but was not part of the www.

[-] marcela@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

An internet in theory is a network of other computer networks (not single computers). The Internet is the world wide web.

[-] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 4 points 1 week ago

An intranet is a local and private computer network.

The internet is a network of intranets, or more accurately, a network by which computers of disparate networks can connect.

Intra, meaning inside or within. Inter, meaning between or among.

Interdepartmental communication would be communication between departments, while intradepartmental communication would be within a single department.

The inter vs intra is the difference here.