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It's Just the 'internet' Now?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the check-with-saint-martin dept.

This morning Wired News announced that 'web', 'net', and 'internet' will no longer be capitalized in their stories. Is this the next logical step after ditching 'e-mail' in favor of 'email' , or should the global computer network still be treated with a proper name? For more discussion, see Wikipedia, The Chicago Manual, and an article profiling Joseph Turow's de-capitalization efforts.

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  1. finally... really... by ack154 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Wired also answers the big question:
    Why? The simple answer is because there is no earthly reason to capitalize any of these words. Actually, there never was.
    Finally... at least someone will admit it.

    So will the "title" for the Slashdot topic icons be changed to reflect this? Or would that be considered a "principal word"?
  2. Another action to piss off the Germans by gmhowell · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And yet another action meant to piss off the Germans. (For those who don't know, in Germanium, the official language of Germania, they avoid the problem of capitalization of nouns by capitalizing all of them.)

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    Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
  3. Re:Next move... by 1u3hr · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Yes, but we do say The President.

    Who's "we"? Americans who think there is only one president in the world? Actually, there's well over 100 nations with presidents. And secondly, what's with capitalising "The"?