It's Just the 'internet' Now?

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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Re:You know...

[gurps_npc]

You can spread all the lies you want to, but Al Gore never said he "invented the internet". If you actually had the brains to check your sources, you would find that out rather quickly, mainly by the fact that you can't find any actual quotes with a time and date, no matter how many mud slinging articles you look through. Al Gore said that he was "instrumental in pushing for the internet to be opened up to the public." Whether or not he was really instrumental is beside the point, that statement is not a ridicilous egotisitcal claim, that you are tying to convince people Al Gore said.

A bunch of Republicans saw this statement as an opportunity to insult Al Gore. So they stated that he was claiming to have "invented the internet.". Republicans used that phrase, NOT Al gore.

But you don't care about the actual truth of what a man said, all you want to do is make an insulting joke.