internet / Internet

I am assuming you mean Internet and Intranet.

An Internet is a public place.

The Intranet is a private place. So in a company that has an Intranet, the web site is only accessable from inside the company. You can not access the Intranet site from outside the company.

I assume you mean an IntRAnet and the IntERnet.

The prefix INTRA means within.
An Intranet is a local network.

The Internet of course is the world wide web.

To draw a sports anology;
IntRA-mural sports are played with teams within the same school.

IntER-mural sports are games played between different schools.

Chas

Assuming you are correct in defining your question.

An internet might mean "internet-connection", which (to my opinion) the hardwares or the system required to connect to THE internet.

The internet is a collection of web pages etc. which contains the information. When someone refer to the internet, they might mean these collection of information.

vh_s

The term internet no matter how it is used is a shortened word for internetwork. Essentially, the combining or any one network with another is an internet. If we go back to the work internetwork, we will notice that we have two networks internetworked with each other.

We people refer to "The Internet" they are commonly refering to publicly accessible systems hosting a variety of services such as web, ftp, or other online gaming services...etc. "The Internet" is nothing more than a global scale internetworking of many many smaller networks.

Hope this helps.