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Computers

e-mail, e-commerce (hyphenated, lower case)

online (not hyphenated, lower case) but: upper case if part of a proper name (America Online, T-Online, etc.)

multimedia (not hyphenated)

website (one word, lower case), but the Web by itself capitalized (as in, Company X has developed a powerful new program to search the Web.) Other words that are sometimes compounded with web should stay separated and lower case, e.g. web searcher.

Internet (capitalized)

www: worldwide web

home page (two words, not one): do not use this as a synonym for a website. It means the page to which a user of the web always returns, either because it is the entry point for a website or because it is set to load when a browser opens.

http: hypertext transfer protocol

Other Technical Terms

ISDN: integrated services digital network

GSM: Global System for Mobile (telephony)

CASTOR: Acronym of a "Cask for Storage and Transport of Nuclear Material" designed in Germany.

The correct name for "mad cow disease" is bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

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