Associated Press Style: No more capitalizing internet and web

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The AP is clearly in the wrong here. I know because I have The Internet on my computer:

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I still insist on using the term E-mail. “e-mail” just doesn’t sit with me.

Also, I guess we need this here.

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The Earth is covered with earth.

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http://edugeography.com/images/atlantic-ocean/atlantic-ocean-07.jpg

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The Internet is connected to internets?

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Wouldn’t the silt at the bottom of the ocean still count?

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I think this is not covered by the meaning of “covered”*, but English is not my first language and I could be wrong.

*) : D

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I will alert my iSP immediately.

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And tUnE-yArDs?

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@Nell_Anvoid, get off my lawn, you young whippersnapper! And pull up those pants, what would your mother think if she saw you dressed like that!

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But that does happen from time to time, though not always by plan: a key line goes down somewhere and then you will see a report that the affected region has been cut off from the Internet. Then, locally, you could say they had ‘an internet’, in a localized sense, but they were separated from the global Internet.

And, as a long-time Chicago adherent, I have to add:

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So internet is now generic for all the various Internets?

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I don’t work for the Associated Press, so I rely on my own sense of style…

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Ok so we need to rename it to be The Highlander of internets

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sorry, could not resist

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So… Many… Good names, It just needs to be mixed with the xkcd chart:

WebLander
HighWeb
HighNet
WebLander
InterLander
BlogoLander
World Wide Highlander

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…Imagine what would happen if it were about the Oxford Comma.

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