A lot of words we use for "the web" create mixed metaphors. Do spiders "surf" their webs? Does anything put a "post on the web"? How about "scraping the web" or

A lot of words we use for "the web" create mixed metaphors. Do spiders "surf" their webs? Does anything put a "post on the web"? How about "scraping the web" or "dark web"? We tack on so many different metaphors that we have completely forgotten the original "web" metaphor. Another related one is World Wide Web. So many sites still have www in front of their URL's, yet only allow connections from specific geographic areas. Not world wide after all.