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8/17/2004

Wired News: Just ‘internet’ Now

Filed under: — dan @ 11:25 am

Dunno, seems weird to me. I think I’ll leave it as Internet. Ya know why? Cuz the ‘Net is more important than those other mediums, like radio or television, heck, TV is still capitalized, ain’t it? No reason for that to be capitalized at all… The capital I gives Internet more of a presence in any sentence, it attracts your eyes to it and makes it more of a force. And darn it, you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. We’re just too used to it by now, and that’s as good reason as any to leave it capitalized!
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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.

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64596,00.html

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