You and i Do. Prof. Joseph Turow, form the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, wants ‘internet’ uncapitalized (and wants the internet “de-capitalized”…). “Capitalization irked him because, he said, it seemed to imply that reaching into the vast, interconnected ether was a brand-name experience… The capitalization of things seems to place an inordinate, almost private emphasis on something.” While Mr. Turow’s editor at the MIT Press agreed, the New York Times swallows hard and holds down the fort for at least a little while longer:

Allan M. Siegal, a co-author of The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage and an assistant managing editor at the newspaper, said that “there is some virtue in the theory” that Internet is becoming a generic term, “and it would not be surprising to see the lowercase usage eclipse the uppercase within a few years.”