1 Nov
2011
1 Nov
'11
3:50 p.m.
I'm inclined to think the capital "I" will gradually fall out of use, as it should: conceptually, we are nearly always talking about not the technical apparatus pe se, but its concomitant cultural, social, and economic aspects. That is, when we think of "internet" we're thinking of how it's populated and used, not what or where it *is* as such. Also, as we've seen with many dictionary definitions of words and their uses, colloquial understandings gradually become "official" out of necessity, anyway. For this reason I'm also inclined to think World Wide Web should remain capitalized, because that is still specific to its purpose and origins, and is a term that almost nobody on the internet actually uses.