Molecularist

As you probably know, I’ve been keeping a list of word ‘tired‘ words, words that I think are either mis-used, unclear, outdated, or something like that.

One of the words I put on the list is ‘Internet’ (read about it here).

Well, I’m a writer at heart and I remember once fighting over the capitalization of ‘Internet’, arguing that it’s a place we go to (that was about 7 years ago). Nonetheless, I’ve seen the word many times written with a small letter ‘internet’ and that’s got me wondering if it’s time for me to demote Internet as a place to internet as plumbing. I’m working on trying to stop calling it ‘the Internet’, and calling it just ‘internet’, in the same way we don’t say ‘the Electricity’.

And lately, I’ve stopped trying to have a concept of what internet is, and just live and breath in a world where internet is a utility.

Eh, to some of you, tired of my semantics, that might not be much. But, to me, it’s a change worth noting.

Now, how does the meaning and capitalization of the word ‘Web’ fit into all this. 🙂