…should it be good enough for me?
Wired has decided that henceforth, the Internet will be the internet, the Web will be the web, and the Net will be the net.
Wired should know, I guess. They argue that these things are simply types of media, and just as we don’t capitalize radio, television or newspaper, we shouldn’t capitalize internet, web or net.
Makes sense…but I’m not sure if I’ll adopt the new Wired style yet myself or not. Internet and Web still strike me as proper nouns, of a sort, as does ‘Net (and I always use i apostrophe in ‘Net, something Wired does not). They are still specific, individual things in a way that radio (really just a specific part of the electromagnetic spectrum) and television (ditto, with some implied technology) and newspapers (which exist in their thousands) are not.
Guess I’ll have to wait and see if the new usage catches on. No editor on this thing to tell me what to do, at any rate!
One thing Wired and I agree on wholeheartedly, at least: e-mail needs a hyphen.
