Wired Magazine: Don't Capitalize internet

Wired magazine announces today that internet, web and net should no longer be capitalized. They're changing their style guide to reflect this change. Snippet:

Effective with this sentence, Wired News will no longer capitalize the "I" in internet.

At the same time, Web becomes web and Net becomes net.

Why? The simple answer is because there is no earthly reason to capitalize any of these words. Actually, there never was.

The article goes on to explain that other recently-developed media, like television and radio aren't capitalized, so internet should not be as well.

Well, this is going to take some getting used to. The one biggie that the article doesn't cover is whether web site is still two words or one.

Read the full article here.

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