1. Internet or the internet?

    October 05, 2008

    The kind of ‘formal’ language interogations that makes a lot of sense to me or at least it draws my attention a lot lately - like how do you spell/capitalise/prefix the word internet:

    the internet
    internet
    Internet
    the Internet

    now i will wonder about two more parameters: in or on.

    * Via

    “i work in ubiquitous computing”
    Often bemused by the “on the internet” versus “in the internet” debate, it’s intriguing that the only person we can find who refers to “i work in ubiquitous computing” was late Mark Weiser (see on his website).

    ** Christophe Guignard from Fabric.ch during a talk by Eric Sadin (Times of the Signs) once noted the different spelling of connection (physically attached) and connexion (close but not touching eachother) in french and english.