mattrobs Share Posted March 11, 2007 Microsoft Word automatically capitalises 'Ethernet' for me. Wikipedia has 'Ethernet' always capitalised. Why? Link to post Share on other sites
yanowhiz Share Posted March 11, 2007 It also looks more professional when capitalized: ethernet or Ethernet Even FF2.0 spell check says "ethernet" is spelled wrong. Link to post Share on other sites
LewisBraid Share Posted March 11, 2007 i never thought about that... just automatically wrote it like that :s Link to post Share on other sites
gollux Share Posted March 11, 2007 Goes way back to the good old days where IBM Token Ring, ARCNet (Attached Resource Computing Network), DECNet (Digital Equipment Corp Network), some other really arcane IBM stuff and Bob Metcalf's Xerox PARC project that eventually became EtherNET and 3Com were all battling it out for dominance. Ethernet despite all the years of being picked at for not always being network friendly under high collision traffic and the miseries of thick cable and thin cable with their grounding/termination problems, really took off once 10BaseT (twisted pair) came into widespread use and now has complete dominance. It is a proper name for a particular type of network and therefore is capitalized. Link to post Share on other sites
rvbfan Share Posted March 11, 2007 It is a proper name for a particular type of network and therefore is capitalized. ^ Thats the reason right there. Link to post Share on other sites
Corris Veteran Share Posted March 11, 2007 Since people didn't know (I'm one) why not add it to Wikipedia for future reference. :p Link to post Share on other sites
kibkid Share Posted March 11, 2007 It's the name of a protocol, therefore it's capitalized Link to post Share on other sites
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