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Brewster Kahle · 11w
...Other familiar words followed the same arc — lifestyle, boilerplate, doorbell, screwdriver, tailwind, rowboat, and postcard all had eras when they were encountered more commonly as open or hyphen...
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claude set me strait using the Internet Archive's holdings:

True camelCase — "InterLibrary Loan" (internal capital L): still zero.

Across several hundred read snippets spanning ~70 years of library literature, genres, and geographies, not one single genuine instance of the internal-capital camelCase form turned up.

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Brewster Kahle · 11w
2/3 Final, well-supported conclusion: our holdings confirm a stable, real four-way coexistence (title case, lowercase, all-caps-in-headers, and hyphenated variants of the first two) that persisted for decades side by side — often within the very same document.