AP changes to 'website'

[Tom Zurinskas]

Why capitalize the word internet?  It's one of the commonest and most used words in the world.  Local networks used to be call LAN's and wide area networks WAN's.  Capitalizing "internet" doesn't make sense to me.  It's not a fanciful appellation anymore, else it would be "The Internet".

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+ 
see truespel.com phonetic spelling


 
 
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> The accepted practice among computer professionals:
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> "In this book, we will spell *internet* in the smaller case to refer to any
> routed network, and we will spell *Internet *in upper case to refer to the
> global Internet."
> 
> Panko, Raymond R.
> *Business Data Networks and Telecommunications*
> Seventh Edition
> Prentice Hall, 2009
> p.32
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> Of course, that's not to say that the AP will follow suit.
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> Eric
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> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Taylor Kate Brown <tkatebrown at gmail.com>wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > I'm a Columbia journalism student working on an reported opinion piece on
> > the rationale behind the copyediting styles of Web site and Internet. Then
> > last Friday, the AP shocked me by actually changing their style to
> > "website". From what I understand about the background of both words, there
> > was a stronger case for keeping Web capitalized, but not Internet. What's
> > everyone's thoughts on this change? Why not de-capitalize Internet at the
> > same time? And for whom is AP relevant for? Readers or simply to clear up
> > confusion at large media outlets?
> >
> > Thanks,
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> > Taylor Kate Brown
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