Some rants about internet terminology.  I already admitted I was anal-retentive.

When to use a hyphen:
Hyphens are used to separate or join words or parts of words.  This results in the formation of a new term.  This brings me to e-mail.

Yes, it's e-mail and not email as is seen too often.  E-mail is shorthand for "electronic mail".  Rather than spell out "electronic mail" every time one needs to communicate the concept, a hyphen is utilized so the two terms act as one.

This is also true if you intend to join the words web and site.  Using website is incorrect.  It should either be "web site" or "web-site".  I admit to having been guilty of this for quite some time, but I am changing my ways (this will be like quitting smoking, huh?).

When to capitalize:
Do you capitalize the word telephone?  Do you capitalize the word mail?  Do you capitalize the word television?  Why then is the word internet capitalized — incorrectly — by so many?  The internet is yet another communication medium, like radio, television or phone.  I don't understand the difference.

The same question can be asked of web, whether or not it is used in conjunction with site as mentioned above.  It should never be "Web" except at the beginning of a sentence.  If referencing the web portion of the internet, it should never be capitalized.  Its use in this context is no different a qualifier than cell for cellular phones, yet we do not capitalize that word.

I'm on my cell.  My cell battery is dead.  Call me on my cell.  Where's my cell?

Get it?  Same goes for internet and web.

Stepping off the soapbox now…