Capital rejection
Have you been browsing on the World Wide Web recently?
Hopefully not. Surfing the web is quite adequate. Come on, take a few deep breaths; it’s not scary anymore.
There’s a school of thought that the web is a place, and therefore a proper noun. So it’s more correctly the Web. Utter shite. The web isn’t a place. Kenya is a place. Florida is a place. Lowestoft is a place (although there’s no need to confirm this by visiting, trust me).
The web’s just a bit like the internet (no, you don’t need a capital I in that either). You read something on the web, or watch something on the internet. You wouldn’t read a Book, or watch the Television, so you don’t surf the Web.
Leave the World Wide Web, hereafter known as ‘the Web’, for the legal drafters - they’re beyond saving.
Oh, and if you’re still spelling email E-mail, you may like to know that they’ve unified Germany, stopped selling video tapes, and mobile phones have become quite a craze.