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Please, I beg you, do not call the web "the internet". The web is but a subset of the internet. Yes, it is taking over the rest of the internet (web-mail and
by loup-vaillant 15y ago
Please, I beg you, do not call the web "the internet". The web is but a subset of the internet. Yes, it is taking over the rest of the internet (web-mail and such). Yes, client-side HTTP is often the only part of the internet you can have from many networks. But no, that is not a good thing.
But because of sloppy wording, non-technical people get the idea that if they can query web servers, then "they have the internet". Most restrictions go unnoticed.
I know it may sound pedantic. It may even remind you of Stallman's GNU/Linux. But really, it can't hurt to say "web" instead of "internet": unlike "GNU/Linux", it is shorter than the incorrect word.