Why do we capitalize "Internet?" I wonder if people who speak other languages, assuming their

[raccoon]

language has capital letters, or something like them, also capitalize "Internet."

I may stop doing it. Just to be cantankerous.


Edited to add: We don't capitalize "television." (yeah, we do TV but that's an abbreviation. )

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

1. We capitalize names. One of the internets is named "Internet".

internets are people, too.



Oh, shit, you're so cantankerous you don't even capitalize your own name, raccoon.

[PoliticAverse]

2. Because the Internet is different than an internet. n/t

[raccoon]

3. Elucidate, my dear Watson. nt

[PoliticAverse]

4. 'an internet' is a collection of computer networks that communicate with each other...

'The Internet' is the global computer network that consists of many individual internets.

'Internet' is a proper noun and so is usually capitalized.

There are many white houses, but there is only one White House.

[HopeHoops]

6. Um, no. Russia also has a "White House" (proper noun).

[DFW]

5. We definitely do in Germany

Proper nouns are ALL capitalized in German, so there's no question as to whether or not to capitalize it in German.

[MiddleFingerMom]

7. Deities are almost always capitalized.

[whistler162]

8. got it in one... even the fallen kind!

which some days it is.

[lunatica]

9. I don't capitalize internet

Maybe that makes me a luddite or something. Are you supposed to capitalize luddite?

[progressoid]

10. Sometimes.

Ms. Luddite for example.

I go by Mr. Downtrodden.

[lunatica]

11. Miss Information here