Resolution: It’s Just ‘cloud computing’ Now

Back in 2004, Wired News proclaimed the death of capitalization for the internet, the web and the net.

Why? The simple answer is because there is no earthly reason to capitalize any of these words. Actually, there never was.

True believers are fond of capitalizing words, whether they be marketers or political junkies or, in this case, techies. If It’s Capitalized, It Must Be Important. In German, where all nouns are capitalized, it makes sense. It makes no sense in English. So until we become Die Wired Nachrichten, we’ll just follow customary English-language usage. (Web will continue to be capitalized when part of the more official entity, World Wide Web.)

The same is certainly true for cloud computing, the subject of much unnecessary capitalization. Let’s make 2010 the year we put an end to Big Cs when talking about cloud.