The Web Is Not the Internet

pigrabbitbear writes with this rant from Motherboard.vice.com: "The Internet and the World Wide Web are not the same thing. They're not synonyms. They don't even serve the same function. And, just like how England is in the United Kingdom, but the United Kingdom isn't England, getting the distinction wrong means you can inadvertently sound like a dummy. Most of the time they can be used synonymously and no one will care, but if you're talking about history or technical stuff and you want to be accurate or a know-it-all or beat a computer at Jeopardy, you should know the difference. The Web was born at CERN in 1990, as a specific, visual protocol on the Internet, the global network of computers that began two decades earlier."

Comments

Interweb

[TechwoIf]

It is interweb, not internet. ;-)

Re:Interweb

[boristdog]

interwebs is plural, duh.

Re:Interweb

[mech_knight]

interwebs is plural, duh.

Interwebs ARE plural, duh.

Re:Interweb

[Quiet_Desperation]

Always been partial to intertubes.

Re:Interweb

[Chuck Chunder]

What you do in the privacy of your own home is none of our business.

Re:Interweb

[ackthpt]

It is interweb, not internet. ;-)

"You got your Internet in my Web!"

"You got your Web in my Internet!"

It's a whole new taste sensation! Alert the news! Oh, they don't care, there's a traffic accident or a house on fire or Tom Cruise is having another arranged marriage...

Why, thank you for that pedantic rant

[crazyjj]

Bet you're a hoot at parties. I can only imagine how charming a fellow you are when someone uses the term "hacker" to refer to someone who breaks into computer systems.

Laymen's Terms

[russlar]

The internet is a series of tubes, the web are the cats clogging the tubes.

Re:And 2+2=4

[ackthpt]

Now we all know.

But 2+2=5, for very large values of 2

This whole arguement is a single voice mumbling in a maelstrom. Rather like people pointing out the 21st century began on Jan 1, 2001, not on Jan 1, 2000 (while being utterly ignored by all the happy people partying.)

This bodes well...

[OldSport]

...for Slashdot accepting my recent submissions of such articles as "The Sky is Blue" and "Hitting Yourself with a Hammer Hurts."

"The AOL"

[stevegee58]

One of my favorite quotes from my mom.

Re:And 2+2=4

[Anonymous Coward]

2+2=5, for very large values of 2

That never made sense to me. It always seemed that 2+2 should equal 6 for very large values of 2.

Re:And 2+2=4

[tqk]

As an engineer, I interpret the value 2 as anything that is usually and reasonably rounded off to 2 ...

Well you (and all these other idiots) should be ashamed. 2+2=4 is obviously using Integers, and there is no 2.x in the set of Integers.

You sound like a bunch of Cardinals discussing how many angels fit on the head of a pin. First you assume angels exist, and it all goes downhill from there.

Great, you're an engineer. Just don't touch anything!