Wired News: It’s Just the ‘internet’ Now

Finally! I always wondered why they were capitalized anyway. I guess they were considered proper nouns, but they have become so ubiquitous these days, that’s hardly the case anymore.

“But in the case of internet, web and net, a change in our 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.”

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