internet demotion

Monday, Aug 16. 2004  –  Category: Linkage

Wired News had a great article/commentary today. They are now officially going to be referring to the internet and its various related technologies in lowercase: internet, web, and net.

Good enough for me! I’m definitely in agreeance with web, and net…. but at first I was still undecided about internet. For me, saying “I read this great article on the Internet the other day” seems analogous to saying “I read this great article in the SF Examiner the other day”. However, one key difference between those two? “on the Internet” vs. “in the SF Examiner”.

I subconciously treat the internet as a medium, NOT a noun. As such, I think I will yield to the great copyeditors of Wired News and go with using lower-case internet as well.

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  1. Anony Mouse Says:
    August 18th, 2004 at 05:17

    Or in other words, “everybody else has always correctly used a lower case ‘i’ for ‘internet’, and now we just look stupid”. (I don’t recall seeing anybody calling it “the Internet”, ever, but that’s probably just because I gave up reading Wired years ago…)

  2. Anony Mous Says:
    August 18th, 2004 at 05:20

    Or in other words, “everyone else has always correctly used a lower case ‘i’ for ‘internet’, and now we just look stupid”.

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