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Subject:Re: Question on Correct way to use Web From:Kathy Bruni <KBruni -at- WALLDATA -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 10 Nov 1998 11:28:44 -0800
We have standardized on Web and Internet (both initial caps). They are both
proper nouns that are each understood to refer to the one Web (the World
Wide Web) and the one and only Internet.
Kathy Bruni
Sr. Information Publisher
Wall Data-The Power of the Cyberprise(tm)
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Email: kbruni -at- walldata -dot- com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nurre, Vickie [SMTP:VNurre -at- AEGONUSA -dot- COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 11:21 AM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Question on Correct way to use Web
>
> Is Web an acronym? If so, what does it stand for? Should it be all caps,
> i.e., WEB? I want to initial cap only, i.e., Web. Someone else I work
> with wants to all cap. I looked this up both in the Microsoft style
> manual - not referenced, and webopedia which uses it in context of the
> World Wide Web. If you use it in a sentence ...on the Web... do you
> need to initial cap?
>
> Also, since I'm asking, is it necessary to always initial cap Internet?
>
> Opinions? Standards?
>
> Thanks, Vickie, vnurre -at- aegonusa -dot- com
>
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