mattrobs Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Microsoft Word automatically capitalises 'Ethernet' for me. Wikipedia has 'Ethernet' always capitalised. Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tao muon Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 It's a registered trademark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yanowhiz Posted March 11, 2007 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 comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanManIt Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Hmmm I never noticed that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitalsoft Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 i never thought about that... just automatically wrote it like that :s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas-c Veteran Posted March 11, 2007 Veteran Share Posted March 11, 2007 how odd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gollux Posted March 11, 2007 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 comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvbfan Posted March 11, 2007 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 comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corris Veteran Posted March 11, 2007 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 comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kibkid Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 It's the name of a protocol, therefore it's capitalized Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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