"First Internet message" and ...

[Paul Koning]

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 <cctalk at classiccmp.org> 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_.
>> ...