Re: Defining "Internet" (or "internet")

Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> Sat, 08 July 2000 01:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: Defining "Internet" (or "internet")
In-Reply-To: <88256915.007F4502.00@hqoutbound.ops.3com.com> from "Jim_Stephenson-Dunn@3com.com" at "Jul 7, 2000 04:09:53 pm"
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Jim;

> I always thought that Internet with capital "I" meant the Internet between
> countries, whilst the internet with a lower case "i"  is referred to by the
> press as an intranet within a corporate structure. Both run IP but within
> different environments.

They are same.

							Masataka Ohta