[Informatics] It's now "the internet" and "the web" - without capital letters

Roland Gesthuizen rgesthuizen at gmail.com
Tue Apr 5 15:20:35 AEST 2016


Joining the "two spaces after a full stop" and "underlining to emphasise camps" (sigh)

> On 5 Apr 2016, at 3:12 PM, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks. Sorry to wake you from your holiday hibernation.
> 
> "The Associated Press—purveyor of the AP Stylebook, used by journalists for the last century to standardize mass communications—has made a pronouncement. No more will the AP insist on capitalizing either word [internet, web]: today, it's officially declaring its allegiance to the lowercase camp."
> 
> Read more...
> 
> http://www.wired.com/2016/04/ap-finally-realizes-2016-will-let-us-stop-capitalizing-internet/ <http://www.wired.com/2016/04/ap-finally-realizes-2016-will-let-us-stop-capitalizing-internet/>
> 
> (You might have issues if you use an ad-blocker. Load the page, press CTRL+P and save to PDF before scrolling down)
> 
> You can go back to sleep now.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Mark Kelly
> 
> mark at vceit.com <mailto:mark at vceit.com>
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