Don Kasprzak

Conversations regarding Globalization, Internet2 and Education

August 21, 2004
by donkasprzak
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Attention Neil Sedaka!

Yamaha has introduced electronic pianos and keyboards that can stream directly over the internet. While I may chuckle it could be nice to hear my grandmother who lives five states away play…or for that matter the opportunity to listen to music from an organ at The USAF Academy’s Cadet Chapel, Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago, Mormon Tabernacle or the Washington National Cathedral.

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August 21, 2004
by donkasprzak
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‘internet’ — not ‘Internet’

Why do people capitalized the “I” in internet? Just never saw the reason.
When I picked up my first email account in 1985 my name and domain was lower case. There was no reason to capitalize any words in an email address like Don@Panaround.Com
—why waste the keystrokes?

Wired magazine has finally declared the same. The same holds true for the following; Web becomes ‘web’ and Net becomes ‘net’ — and for those of you who like to hyphen ‘email’ to ‘e-mail’, here is an article that fixes that mistake as well.

Still Holding out? Are you one of those old COBOL programmers (remember when biz schools insisted it was the future choice of programming languages?) who found out html was the language of choice? Well then you know xhtml requires code in lower case too.

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–Now if we could only make exclamation points mandatory!