“The folks responsible for the entries in the Associated Press Stylebook have announced that the word ‘Internet’ will no longer be uppercased, thus breaking my heart and making some of our writers very happy,” Henry Pickavet reports for TechCrunch.
“The AP Stylebook, which many newspapers and websites (one word? really?) use to guide their style efforts, defines Internet as ‘a decentralized, worldwide network of computers that can communicate with each other,'” Pickavet reports. “It’s a pretty big definition and has warranted the glory of a capital I. But no more. And that’s not all. The AP Stylebook has also decided to lowercase ‘Web.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Finally, the
Internetinternet andWebweb, have arrived!
Oh no! Do you know how many documents that I have to go back through now and change those two letters?
/s
Perhaps they also need to clarify that when citing websites the “www” is verbose and unnecessary. Anytime someone tells me to go to “www….” they lose credibility with me.
I agree with you that it is almost always superfluous.
But, believe it or not, there are still sites out there that don’t auto-map port 80 (http) requests made against their domain name onto whatever machine is running their web server. In other words, for those sites, the “www.” machine name is still necessary.
Well Al Gore invented the Internet, so shouldn’t he have a say in this?
Actually, the Republicans invented that Al Gore invented the internet (internet should be lower case Dole)
So, ask them. 😉
And George Bush invented the Internets, so he should have a say, too.
Internet and Web are both pronouns and nouns.
There are many stars and planets, but only one Sun and Earth, likewise there is only one Internet and Web but we can dig in earth and browse web pages.
It’s a matter of context. Just because the AP wants to change the standard of their writing, doesn’t change why we capitalized some words and not others.
Well, almost no one capitalizes the acronym LASER anymore.
I agree with your take, but I guess these wonders are now mundane to most people.
Mundane – one’s take on how boring something is. The internet is too boring now to capitalize. Laser has gone from, acronym to word, alas also losing its luster.
pronouns? I don’t think so.
They are names. Being capitalized, named items are pronouns, there is one Web and one Internet.
Sorry… I see my error. Pronoun was wrong. I should have wrote “proper noun.”
righto. 🙂
To-may-to, To-mah-to
“Let’s call the whole thing off.” – The Gershwin Boys
My buddy Jorge wrote that in the key of F. But I think you’re over peoples’ heads now.
AP => Assigned Propaganda
Ditch the Style Manual and make room for the Newspeak Dictionary, got it, doubleplusgood!
Big deal. I don’t give a damn what the AP thinks about anything.
ditto to you
If you don’t like something I say, fine. You don’t need to be an asshole about it though.