internet at last

On November 23, 2009, I wrote a post arguing that it's stupid that the word "Internet" needs to be capitalized. 

Seven years later, The Associated Press—purveyor of the AP Stylebook, used by journalists for the last century to standardize mass communications—has made a pronouncement:

No longer will the AP insist on capitalizing both "internet" and "web." 

It's about freakin' time.