While the dot com era seemed to herald the rise of lowercase letters beginning names (ebay, iPod, uBid, etc.) the word Internet was an annomoly. But that’s now changed. According to Wired, we no longer need to capitalize the ‘i’ in ‘internet’. Or the ‘n’ in net. Or the ‘w’ in ‘web.’

[I]n the case of internet, web and net, a change in our house style was necessary to put into perspective what the internet is: another medium for delivering and receiving information. That it transformed human communication is beyond dispute. But no more so than moveable type did in its day. Or the radio. Or television.

Throughout the years, I’ve been one of those rare people who actually knew the proper capitalization and and tried as much as possible to abide by it. I remeber a former colleague sending out an email with the official style guide for all those new “new economy” terms. Off all the hundreds of email sna memos, that’s one that stuck. And now I’ll probably forget all the time about the lower-case i’s. Maybe Jeneane needs to send out another memo…