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To: ~digs who wrote (56)	8/17/2004 8:04:10 PM
From: ~digs	Read Replies (1) of 73

It's Just the 'internet' Now wired.com Effective with this sentence, Wired News will no longer capitalize the "I" in internet. At the same time, Web becomes web and Net becomes net. Today's the Day. Why? The simple answer is because there is no earthly reason to capitalize any of these words. Actually, there never was. True believers are fond of capitalizing words, whether they be marketers or political junkies or, in this case, techies. If It's Capitalized, It Must Be Important. In German, where all nouns are capitalized, it makes sense. It makes no sense in English. So until we become Die Wired Nachrichten, we'll just follow customary English-language usage. (cont'd)

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