Oh, ho, so Wired News will no longer use a capital I when referring to a certain globe-spanning computer network:
"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.
"Today's the Day. Why? The simple answer is because there is no earthly reason to capitalize any of these words. Actually, there never was."
For a site that devotes so much attention to happenings based on that network, the stunning lack of technical background in that last sentence is a bit disconcerting.
Back in pre-history, like, oh, when Wired first started, AN internet was a collection of networks tied together somehow (a common set of protocols or even gateways; anybody remember those arcane addresses for getting Bitnet messages into your inbox?). THE Internet was well, you know, one very specific internet.
As you might imagine, for the record, we intend to continue capitalizing "Internet." "Web", too, since we're referring to one specific web here (as opposed to the way Variety calls TV networks "webs").
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