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Why does Cisco use lower case i Internet in their documentation? - ITN CCNAv7
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Gee, I wonder why a massive public corporation from California is using lowercase i Internet in their documentation, it's not like every single massive public corporation in California works towards the goal of dismantling of the uppercase I Internet as we know it, that can't be true.
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Because Cisco documentation is its own circle of hell.
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no NO NO FUCK NO
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It's been a long-ass time but in part there was a cultural thing around Cisco's use of the term 'Internetworking' as part of their trademarks (like IOS, which Apple had to license). Them wanting to sell routers, they were big on everyone having their own 'internet'.
Or more simply this author used a more normie capitalization of the term.
Or more simply this author used a more normie capitalization of the term.
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Why was it ever capitalized when not the first word in a sentence?
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It sometimes is, to describe The Internet as a thing.
In this specific sense it's (probably) about Null's definition of Internet vs. internet as he expounded on in a recent MATI.
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Maybe because AP Style Guide changed it to lower-case in 2016?
https://www.theverge.com/2016/4/2/11352744/ap-style-guide-will-no-longer-capitalize-internet
https://www.theverge.com/2016/4/2/11352744/ap-style-guide-will-no-longer-capitalize-internet
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My argument for the Cisco guide is the other way around from the 'old AP' way. Cisco wanted to remind you that The Internet wasn't the only possible internet (and indeed over the years there have been many private 'internets').
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Ty!