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.
In the case of the words internet, web and net, a change in the house style was necessary to put into perspective what the internet is: another medium for delivering and receiving information. That it transformed human communication is beyond dispute. But no more so than moveable type did in its day. Or the radio. Or television. And we don’t capitalize any of those words… so why should we continue to capitalize the web?
This is a VERY intersting article from Wired News on the syntax of the web. Please read for fun and pleasure. Notice all catagory words have been changed to follow suit with this move. I agree with this completely and its great that we have folks around who are considering this stuff important enough to even discuss. Good job Wired…cheers!
www.wirednews.com
Read also how Tony Long (the author of the above article) demanded there be a hyphen in the word e-mail!
Link to WiredNews e-mail article from October 2000