It's Just the 'internet' Now
Wired News: It's Just the 'internet' Now
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.
Fascinating.
The reasons for doing this seemed dubious to me. I thought, you don't go around saying "the radio" and "the television" when you're speaking generically about the medium. It seemed right to capitalize the Internet because it was always preceded by "the". However, I then thought, you don't capitalize television when you say something like, "the television sucks honey, we need a widescreen HDTV." So yeh, I guess it makes sense.