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Compound Computer Terms: Part II
In the following list, the two-word forms (shown first) are still more common, but the one-word forms are starting to take hold.
In the following list, the hyphenated forms (shown first) are more common, but the solid or spaced forms are now being used in materials aimed at industry insiders.
The following compound words are solid except in a few special cases:
Compound words beginning with Web are usually two words:
NOTE: The term Web site
is still most commonly written as two words with a capital W.
However, along with a few other Web compounds, it has started to appear
as a solid word without an initial cap (website). In order to
maintain a consistent style, it is better to retain the capital W
until a majority of these terms (such as the World Wide Web and
the Web) lose their initial cap as well.¹ Now I'll add a note of my own. If you've spent any time on "the Web" lately, you know that many Web compounds have already lost their initial cap. I'm sure you've also noticed that in everyday usage, these words are typically written as one word, especially the words website and webpage. Now I'm not telling you to buck the official rules, but just keep your audience in mind when you're writing computer terms like these.
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