>>>On the UT news, there is one about a company that thinks it is more logical to write Internet in lowercase (internet). This doesn't make much sense to me (although I did have a tendency to do the same, at the beginning...). Proper names should be capitalized, and the Internet is the name of the global network. It is the Internet, not an internet. Now, if we started to work with different large networks, and call each of them "an internet", the situation would change - but that is not the case now.
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>>>The case is similar for the Web (meaning, of course, the www). Once again, we have the Web, not a web.
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>>>Any opinions?
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>>Hilmar, I think you should revise your signature. It says "The earth is but ...". But since there's only one earth, shouldn't it be "The Earth..."?! :)
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>Hehe, I think you are right. I had started writing "World" in uppercase, for a while, when it was used as a "proper name" for Planet Earth.
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>But I am not sure what the common usage is; I copied the text from somewhere else. These are not my words, but words written by the founder of the Bahá'í Faith. And I believe that in Arabic - I think the original is Arabic, in this case - they don't have to trouble with uppercase vs. lowercase!

I hope for you that the Bahá'í Faith movement (difficult name, btw) offers its members enough individual freedom. If that's the case, you can decide for yourself, can't you? :)