{"id":2481,"date":"2016-04-03T09:40:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T01:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/03\/the-internets-lowercase-demotion-by-ap-stylebook-upsets-the-internets\/"},"modified":"2016-04-03T09:40:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T01:40:55","slug":"the-internets-lowercase-demotion-by-ap-stylebook-upsets-the-internets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/03\/the-internets-lowercase-demotion-by-ap-stylebook-upsets-the-internets\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet's lowercase demotion by AP Stylebook upsets the internets"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The end of an era is coming: As of June 1, Internet will no longer be capitalized.<\/p>\n

No, there’s no law mandating the change, and the Internet will still be a thing, you’ll just start to notice a difference in the way the word appears on many websites<\/p>\n

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See also: AP Stylebook Finally Changes \u201ce-mail\u201d to \u201cemail\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The update reflects a shift in the Associated Press Stylebook<\/a>, the writing bible for many journalists in the U.S.<\/p>\n

So while a large number of websites that don’t use the AP Stylebook as a guide will continue to write the word as they see fit, for many others, readers will need to get used to seeing the word as “internet.” Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

More about Internet<\/a>, Ap<\/a>, Associated Press<\/a>, Ap Stylebook<\/a>, and Internet Slang<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The end of an era is coming: As of June 1, Internet will no longer be capitalized. No, there’s no law mandating the change, and the Internet will still be a thing, you’ll just start to notice a difference in … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1719,1721,1720,1718,1722],"class_list":["post-2481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-ap","tag-ap-stylebook","tag-associated-press","tag-internet","tag-internet-slang"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}