The death of ‘Internet’

TechCrunch ^ | April 3, 2016 | by Henry Pickavet

[Paladin2]

The AP isn’t dead yet? Must be an active Zombie though...

[Talisker]

Islamic terrorism will still be referred to as anything but.

[Swordmaker]

For all you grammar police out there, the AP Stylebook will now dictate that "Internet" must be rendered in all articles as "internet" with a lowercase "i" and "Web" with a lowercase "w", the same as a spider's web. No special emphasis is to be granted to those words. ALAS! We Web Denizens have been demoted to just average citizens of the world. No longer may we be permitted to capitalize our virtual residence as though it had more import than anywhere else in the world. This change of import occurs on June 1, 2016 when the new stylebook comes out. Perhaps, we should protest by referring to "AP", as "ap" from now on?— PING!

Pinging dayglored and Shadow Ace for the passing of an era!

The "Internet" is dead
Long live the "internet!"
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[Redcitizen]

If they gonna go that far, let’s just call it the interwebz.

[Oztrich Boy]

And just what is the associated press stylebook?

[GOP Poet]

yay!

[This_far]

The folks responsible for the entries in the Associated Press Stylebook...

This was already done, in 1984, "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension", by a Lectoid Commander... at/near the end...

So what? Big deal

(I never cap'ed internet and forced programs to allow lowercase...)

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

All this really shows is how far AP has fallen.

A very, very long time ago, AP quite simply WAS the news, everybody in the newspaper business built their particular slice of that world on stories that came off that hallowed AP teletype and the surest sign of a genuine old-time newsie was he was the only guy in the Newsroom that wouldn’t jump or even put down his coffee(or ?) cup when that little bell started ringing.

Now, the only way AP can even get noticed is by playing spelling Czar.

....lower case instead of upper. Give me a f’ing break.

[Paladin2]

I call it Islamic Jihad.

[publius911]

And just what is the associated press stylebook?

Just another thing the rest of us can ignore...

: )

[Swordmaker]

And just what is the associated press stylebook?

It's the holy q'ran of how news writers and reporters must write for the vast majority of newspapers. They set the style of news stories, what grammar to use, what words are forbidden to use, what is politically correct, what forms of address one must use, etc.

They revise it from time to time to reflect the general mores of the time. It dictates what general English in the Main Stream Media will be in written form. . . It includes what dirty words are not allowed and what will now be permitted. How one is to refer to the child growing in the womb, for example, as "fetus" and not a "foetus" and NEVER as a "pre-born baby" or "unborn infant". It also may require that that item growing in the womb be properly referred to as "an unviable tissue mass" if it's in the first trimester and the woman decides to abort. These are all fair-game for the stylebook.

[FredZarguna]

Completely stupid move by technologically illiterate people. Any collection of computers is an internet. The Internet is a specific, singular one. The noun meets all the requirements of a proper noun, it is grammatically incorrect to lowercase the I. Not surprising that the increasingly uneducated muppets at AP do not know this.

[Graybeard58]

(I never cap’ed internet and forced programs to allow lowercase...)

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JUST FOR THAT,I’M GONNA YELL AT YOU!

[smokingfrog]

[This_far]

JUST FOR THAT, I’M GONNA YELL AT YOU!

THAT'S OK... I REALLY LIKED YOUR WORK ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE MR MORRIS

[Dilbert San Diego]

And we are not supposed to say illegal aliens any longer. I’m sure there are other verboten words or statements as well. The AP standards are liberal so need to follow the liberal line.

[Crucial]

I thought proper nouns were supposed to be capitalized.

[uglybiker]

They just want to be more up to date and hip.

In which case they should type it as: the 1nt3rn3t5

lolrofl!!!!!!111!!!!11!!

[piytar]

Well said.