[Air-l] Origin of the term "Internet" ?

Jeremy Hunsinger jhuns at vt.edu
Fri Mar 30 06:01:49 PDT 2007


I think the capitalization comes down to 'house style'  more than  
anything else.  OII should be capitalizing Internet, I think, but I  
don't think everyone needs to or necessarily should.
On Mar 30, 2007, at 8:54 AM, William Dutton wrote:

>
> Sue, Jeremy and others,
>
> Based on many of the arguments raised in this debate, we decided  
> years ago
> to standardize our house style on the Internet, with a capital 'I',  
> even
> though we are swimming upstream of shifting journalistic conventions.
>
> Bill




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