I have to agree with others here that the particular reasons given in the article for why AP will no longer be capitalizing "Internet" don't really make sense.

I have to agree with others here that the particular reasons given in the article for why AP will no longer be capitalizing "Internet" don't really make sense. I'm pretty sure I always capitalize it, except perhaps in IM/chat when I capitalize very little. I don't know if I've ever capitalized "web". Certainly I remember how the NYT's insistence on spelling "weblogs" "Web logs" drove me nuts for years (this was way back in 1999 and the early 2000s before "blog", kids). The reasoning and usage of the people who coined and actually use a new word surely should have some influence on how it is spelled when the word is reported on. Which brings me back to "Internet"--same argument from me: the style should follow that of the people to whom the word is most relevant, unless they are just ludicrously out of step with common usage. So I'm curious if they actually did research on how people spell "Internet" in non-casual settings, or if they are just trying to set a precedent and truly believe that capital letters are "speed bumps" (that's true in a sense: our brain pauses on them precisely because we've trained ourselves to understand that they are used for Important Things like names).