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   DeeAnn Little (chillicampari@layer8.space)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 06:10:59 JST DeeAnn Little

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   • Bob Jonkman
   • Evan Prodromou

   @bobjonkman looks like it started out lower case (Wayback Machine link below), then somewhere along the way people started capitalizing it. I do that now, though that might be from living in Germany for several years and I capitalize more nouns than I used to (even with English), so if/when it's commonly lower cased again from widespread usage maybe it will be returning to its original form :D @evan

   https://web.archive.org/web/20131204021530/http://oracle.skilledtests.com/group/fediverse

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan

     In its youth "Internet" was capitalized, but almost nobody does that any more. When the norm becomes "fediverse" we'll know it has become mainstream.

     I've always thought "Huffman" encoding should be lower-case, since it's so well established. But that might be different because it's the name of a person, David Huffman, who invented it.