Write the I in "Internet" as a capital letter

Daily reminder that when you write about the Internet, you should write the "I" in "Internet" as a capital "I", not lower-case. "An internet" is just a network of network, meanwhile "the Internet" is THE Internet, a network of networks that connects every network. As the Internet gears towards becoming more split, i.e. becoming a splinternet, which is something the mighty and rich want, this distinction holds more and more importance, because the open, free, and all-encompassing Internet is written with a capital letter, meanwhile state-regulated, closed, surveillance, and splintered internets are written lower-case. I think it's important that people are aware of this difference and write it in their texts correctly. This is not a pedantic grammar/spelling nazi thing, rather than a difference in language that divides the corponet from the free Internet.

>The Internet is Not a Big Truck it is a Series of Tubes

Source of that graph? Who are the other "stars"?

>>46836 >Source of that graph? Who are the other "stars"? I got it from the Wikipe page on the Internet. I thought it fitting for visualizing what I'm getting at.

>>46833 > which is something the mighty and rich want So they suddenly stopped being globalists, made a 180 and now want closed isolated ethnostates?

>>46837 Thanks. The source is apparently there https://www.opte.org/ but I couldn't find an easy to navigate version. I assume the "stars" are ISPs (the highlighted one is Verizon btw), so it isn't really about splintering the Internet, just that they have no need for a more complex network architecture. A more interesting case is with China's network. The architecture is a lot more complex than a simple ISP, but all connections outside of the national network are controlled by the state. And whole IP ranges are indeed derezzed, while others are inaccessible from outside. Is China's network part of the Internet, or just an internet?

>>46839 I thought this formulation would be the most agreeable and ideologically neutral among all. You can substitute "mighty and rich" with whatever force you think is ruining the Internet. But to answer properly, I think there is a force driving the Internet to be more closed down and divided into smaller parts, mostly national. >>46840 I would say China's internet is an internet with marginal access to the Internet. It's clear that it's a separate entity by now, however, it's still not completely cut off from the global Internet.