Haines His Way

   TCB-GOOD HEALTH VIBES TO YOU AND THE SWEET KIDS! [/b] [/size]

Thank you to FJL, Jose, Ginny, and anyone else I may have missed, for the good  vibes.  However, please don't waste their power on me.  There are a lot of others here (Keith's mother, Dakota's dad, elmore vs. the macbeth's, Jane's travel, MusicGuy and MBarnum's travel, etc., etc., etc.) that need them more than I do.  

I will, however, gladly accept them for Angel and Nicky.

I'm sure we all have plenty of room in our hearts for all of these good vibes

My question of the day:  I have always capitalized the I when writing Internet.  Is that correct?  If so, why?  If not, why?  What is the most used form today?

According to one of the definitions on Dictionary.com:

Internet networking
(Note: capital "I"). The Internet is the largest internet (with a small "i") in the world. It is a three level hierarchy composed of backbone networks, mid-level networks, and stub networks. These include commercial (.com or .co), university (.ac or .edu) and other research networks (.org, .net) and military (.mil) networks and span many different physical networks around the world with various protocols, chiefly the Internet Protocol.
Until the advent of the World-Wide Web in 1990, the Internet was almost entirely unknown outside universities and corporate research departments and was accessed mostly via command line interfaces such as telnet and FTP. Since then it has grown to become an almost-ubiquitous aspect of modern information systems, becoming highly commercial and a widely accepted medium for all sort of customer relations such as advertising, brand building, and online sales and services. Its original spirit of cooperation and freedom have, to a great extent, survived this explosive transformation with the result that the vast majority of information available on the Internet is free of charge.
While the web (primarily in the form of HTML and HTTP) is the best known aspect of the Internet, there are many other protocols in use, supporting applications such as electronic mail, Usenet, chat, remote login, and file transfer.
There were 20,242 unique commercial domains registered with InterNIC in September 1994, 10% more than in August 1994. In 1996 there were over 100 Internet access providers in the US and a few in the UK (e.g. the BBC Networking Club, Demon, PIPEX).
There are several bodies associated with the running of the Internet, including the Internet Architecture Board, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, the Internet Engineering and Planning Group, Internet Engineering Steering Group, and the Internet Society.
See also NYsernet, EUNet.
The Internet Index - statistics about the Internet.
(2000-02-21)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe

And the term comes from 1986, "the linked computer networks of the U.S. Defense Department," shortened from internetwork, from inter- + network.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper

Jeanne-Interesting.

Depending on what you define as a UFO???

Aliens no....

Flying cows, yes
Unidentified flying objects sailing through the air at some unsuspecting person yes.... However they are later identified as things ranging from rubberbands to clothes to food...

BTW, any rumours of me being involved in food fights are wildly exaggerated!

Strangest flying object.....  Cow dung!

Oh, my, DAKOTA. You do live an interesting life!

Always works, DR GINNY.  Especially if you add "Now!!"

If I saw a UFO I think I'd NEED to use a convenience!

My question of the day:  I have always capitalized the I when writing Internet.  Is that correct?  If so, why?  If not, why?  What is the most used form today?

Bruce,
I concur with most of what George's reference says. The Internet was actually called the ARPAnet for many years, after ARPA, the Advanced Research Projects Agency IIRC. (Der B, do you recall?) At that time it was private, but provided a means to communicate and pass files among the various Naval labs and many universities.

I have always capitalized the I. However, if you consult a number of style manuals on a given word or usage you will often find a divergence--each purporting to be the correct form. When I was manager of a technical publishing group my technical editor and I put together a style guide for our group, just so we'd have consistency. For your purposes, I'd say choose the form you prefer, then stick with it.

So it sounds like the capital I that I've always used is correct.  Is it what most people use, though?  I use it a lot in the new book, and I think I'll leave it the way I did it.

I personally have always used the capital I for Internet, also.

Any time I try to write Internet without the capital letter, Spell Check jumps all over me.  Of course, Spell Check also tells me that I am spelling my last name wrong; so, what do they know?

TCB, you can always (should be able to) add your name to your spell check so that it knows that your name is spelled correctly.

BK welcomes DR Adrianna Patti to the table. Before you all say " Hey, get a room," really, BK welcomed everyone to the table this way last night. In fact you should see the hickey he gave DR MusicGuy.

Here is the entire continget having various and sundried and lively conversations. The photo was taken by the most amazingly handsome staff person you ever laid eyes on (who I kept trying to get a photograph of until he wisely decided he had best get the camera away from me by suggesting he take a picture of our group)

DR elmore I am very proud of you for skipping dessert last night.

TCB, you can always (should be able to) add your name to your spell check so that it knows that your name is spelled correctly.

Oh, I know, George; but I enjoy the abuse.