No, "internet" has (had?) a very different meaning. Loosely, a network of
computers belonging to different organizations, or using different
technologies. I think at the time, "network" was used to designate a
collection of computers in a single building, or under single management,
talking to each other. If you connect such "networks" together, the result is
an "internet".
I'd say that term is at this point rather obsolete. I don't think I've seen it
in use as a technical term for decades.
"Internet", with a capital letter, is something different entirely: it is (or
feels like) the term picked to replace "ARPAnet" when it became desirable to
call that network by a name that doesn't designate it as a US government
research agency creation.
paul
> On Nov 25, 2019, at 1:45 PM, Richard Pope via cctalk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Noel,
> Isn't the proper term for my network of computers here at home: internet
> and the term : Internet the proper term for the worldwide collection of
> networked computers?
> GOD Bless and Thanks,
> rich!
>
> On 11/25/2019 12:06 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
>> > From: Fred Cisin
>>
>> > Is that message about 1) history of internet? (THANK YOU for specifying
>> > "internet", otherwise "computer to computer" involves much older
>> history.
>> > ...
>> > those messages were sent on PRECURSORS to the internet, NOT on the
>> > internet.
>>
>> Did you mean "internet" or 'Internet'?
>>
>> The poorly educated cretins at the AP nothwithstanding, those are two
>> different words, with _different meanings_.
>> ...
