Style Manual
General Usage Questions

C9. Computer Terms

c9.1. BBS (computer bulletin board system); plural is BBSes.

c9.2. email. The magazine, Wired, used e-mail for electronic mail when it began but since then, it has switched to "email."

c9.3. home page (two words).

c9.4. infobahn-same as the information superhighway, always lowercase. I-way is acceptable but it needs first letter capitalized.

c9.5 input, output, throughput-all spelled without a hyphen.

c9.6. Internet, the Net.

c9.7. online. Italicize online publications as you would print publications. But, use roman for online services. For example, America Online, CompuServe, Prodigy, World Wide Web.

c9.8. World Wide Web, the web, web site. Spell all compound expressions with the word "web" as two words—web pages, web browsing, web server, etc.

c9.9 Software titles and online services-capitalize but no italics. Examples: WordPerfect, PageMaker, CompuServe, Prodigy, America Online


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