[Vision2020] Question about Googling terminology

[Paul Rumelhart]

I'd argue that the telephone and the television are the equivalent of 
the computer, which is always lower case, but there is no equivalent to 
the multi-headed hydra that is the Internet.  The phone system, at least 
to my knowledge, was never thought of as this separate thing that had 
it's own culture and a life of it's own.  Ditto television.  Phones 
connect one-to-one, not really as part of a community except in the 
sense that you could call anyone you knew the number for.  Television 
was mostly one-way, so no community there.  The Internet is, in my mind, 
different.  It's unique, and deserving of it's capital "I".  It's more 
like a place than an object.

Paul

Donovan Arnold wrote:

> Chas,
>
> So if I use Yahoo Search instead of Googling, am I Yahooing?
>
> I agree that if telephone and television are lowercase, so should 
> Internet.
>
> Best,
>
> _DJA
>
> */Chasuk <chasuk at gmail.com>/* wrote:
>
>     On 7/10/06, Donovan Arnold wrote:
>
>     > OK, so does Googling mean, only using "Google"? Can you Google
>     on Yahoo, or
>     > Google by Mr. Jeeves, or does Googling, strictly mean using Google?
>
>     I wouldn't use the word "Googling" to refer to searches performed on
>     other services, but I believe that the usage, if it persists, will
>     eventually encompass all competing services, if that hasn't already
>     started to happen.
>
>     > And another question, can Internet be spelled with a little "i"?
>     Some one
>     > needs to write an official rules of the Internet book.
>
>     I find "internet" ugly, but www.wired.com specifies the small "i" in
>     their style book. Logically, I suppose that small "i" makes sense, as
>     we don't refer to to "Telephone" and "Television."
>
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