The Verge has a story on how the Associated Press is no longer going to capitalize the word “Internet” as of June 1st. It made me realize I’ve always capitalized it, probably because everyone else did and it wasn’t one of those “Well, if all of your friends jumped off a cliff, would you?” things where going along with the crowd was stupid or possibly fatal.
But now I too will change with the times and write of the internet as a thing and not a Thing.
I’m not, however, going to search and replace every instance of “Internet” on this blog, because that would be stupid (a pedantic waste of time) or possibly fatal (I’d likely feel like murdering something after doing this since AFAIK there’s no easy, global search and replace function).
The Web is also now just the web. Spider web, web of lies, internet web, all on equal footing now.
But does email still have a hyphen or not? (Turns out the AP removed the hyphen five years ago.)
