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The Web Is Not the Internet

Posted by timothy on from the and-please-don't-say-atm-machine dept.

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."

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  1. well duh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is not news for nerds or stuff that matters.

    1. Re:well duh by Wovel · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I did a poll of my 3 year old son, my wife, and my 85 year old grandmother, none of them thought this was news. How does this crap get on the front page. This site is turning into a vanity press for people who can game the firehose.

  2. This is Slashdot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What the fuck happened to this site? Seriously.

    I used to come here daily to get my news fix and now it's more like once a month... and I'm immediately disappointed in the quality. I can't even be bothered to log in anymore.

    This is amazingly horrible.

  3. Re:And 2+2=4 by asdf7890 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    (while being utterly ignored by all the happy people partying)

    While sensible hedonists used the confusions as an excuse for an extra large party two years running.

  4. Re:And 2+2=4 by realityimpaired · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you're going to argue that 2.9 is a large value of 2, and not a small value of 3 (in other words, if you're going to truncate rather than round), then you need to do the same action to the result as well. trunc(5.7) is 5, not 6.