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  • Neb Okla

    4 years ago

    I think that every once in a while, Wired likes to try to tell everyone how things are going to be. Then any time they see Internet spelled in lower case, they can claim responsibility and feel important - despite the fact that none of my friends who subscribed to wired in 1996 do today.
  • Anonymous

    4 years ago

    Well, Wired is just saying that "internet" is no longer a proper noun. It's general, like road or tree or desk.

    It's weird though, because it's not like "internet" refers to a class of objects, so you would think it would be capitalized. Also, that sentence about no historical precedence or whatever seems entirely lazy and bogus. Like somebody asked, "Why do we capitalize Internet anyway?" and somebody replied, "Damfino." and that's all they thought about it. Al Gore be damned.

    (P.S. on the Chicago Manual thing...try this: "I stuck my shovel in the earth."
    vs. "I stuck my shovel in the Earth."

    Doesn't the second make you feel like you're some sort of interstellar being? I know I do.)

    MadS
  • KarlaX

    3 years ago

    Great blog you have going on. KarlaX

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