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The internet and the web aren't the same thing. Please don't talk as if they were. This is more important than it may seem at a first glance. Non-techies alr
by loup-vaillant 15y ago
The internet and the web aren't the same thing. Please don't talk as if they were.
This is more important than it may seem at a first glance. Non-techies already tend to genuinely confuse the two. Those people have no problem buying a crippled data plans that will let them query web servers and nothing else, because they will believe they "have the internet" on their phones. But when you're behind a big NAT, with no public IP and most ports filtered, you don't have an internet connection. (Even according the big French carriers themselves. Thank goodness, They since stopped calling their data plans "internet" in their ads.)
The obvious effect is that the web is taking over the internet. As it does, it becomes increasingly acceptable to block nearly everything else (for home connections at least).
That would surely "tame the internet".
- dredmorbius 15y agoThe Internet and the Web aren't the same thing. Please don't talk as if they were. Fixed.