[kj] Chat/IRC

Peter Adams praest76 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 04:05:55 EST 2008


On 27/02/2008, Brendan <bq at soundgardener.co.nz> wrote:

> Sorry I mean the advent of the World Wide Web, which is on the

> internet....which has been around since around '69.


I think '67, but it doesn't count because it took three months to send
a 50k message and if it crashed in that time you had to replace the IT
department and start again.


> Where since 1991 and the advent of the internet (now so ubiquitous that it

> doesn't require a capital I any more) all Nouns in a Sentence, proper or

> not, are capitalised (or capitalized in the 'States). Makes it easier for

> the germans I suppose. Sorry...the Germans.

>

> German's. Germans'?


Careful, you nearly mentioned the war there...

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