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Not really, Web has always been the third W on WWW, aka "World Wide Web". The term "WorldWideWeb" was coined by Robert Cailliau, a colleague of Tim Berners-Lee
by ratww 6y ago
Not really, Web has always been the third W on WWW, aka "World Wide Web".
The term "WorldWideWeb" was coined by Robert Cailliau, a colleague of Tim Berners-Lee in CERN.
I've never seen your definition being used before, even by Gopher or Usenet enthusiasts.
- ghaff 6y agoI actually just looked at my 1992 copy of The Whole Internet from O'Reilly. The World Wide Web (WWW) is very specifically used to refer to the CERN project and not Gopher et al. "The World-Wide Web, or WWW, is the newest information service to arrive on the Internet." That the web is conflated with the internet in many minds doesn't mean they actually are the same thing.