Re: the Web....or web....

[David Blyth <dblyth -at- qualcomm -dot- com>]

Mark L was saying (Hi Mark!)...

>The way I see it, the World Wide Web is a web, just as the Ford Motor
>Company is a company.  The proper noun refers to an instance of the
>common noun.

Except there's only one Web and yes, it's capitalized.  I think it's up
to us to follow the conventions Tim Berners-Lee established.  See
Chapter 1 from his book "Weaving the Web"  or just the book title.

http://www.harpercollins.com/hc/bookpage/index.asp?isbn=0062515861

You can also get "A Little History of the World Wide Web" at
http://www.w3.org/History.html.  This also links to Berners-Lee's
original proposal, at http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html

Here's a trivia question for you: What was the name of Tim's first
browser?  The answer is on the History page, but I won't say where.
You'll just have to read the material.  It's quite interesting.


David S. Blyth
Staff Technical Writer
QCT Division (Spinco!)
QUALCOMM

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