Internet
(Upper case I) The vast collection of inter-connected networks that all use the TCP/IP protocols and that evolved from the ARPANET of the late 60's and early 70's. The Internet now (July 1995) connects roughly 60,000 independent networks into a vast global internet.
(Lower case i) Any time you connect 2 or more networks together, you have an internet - as in inter-national or inter-state.
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