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Also, they rap on the Internet when they really mean World Wide Web. The Internet is fantastic. The Web has never been worse.
by 1970-01-01 3y ago
Also, they rap on the Internet when they really mean World Wide Web. The Internet is fantastic. The Web has never been worse.
- bigstrat2003 3y agoFor all but the most dedicated pedants, those terms are synonymous.
- alangibson 3y agoFor most normies "internet" is synonymous with their favorite social media site and maybe Google. I've been talking to quite a few Zoomers lately about the Internet. Not a single one of them knew what the WWW was. They though it was basically something Google made. The important social media apps (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and to a lesser degree Twitter) are barely part of the Web. They mostly treat the WWW as a minor traffic acquisition platform.
- ericfrazier 3y agoReddit is in that list and I have to imagine a lot of their traffic is still WWW
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- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoIf you'll forgive my quoting xkcd, > but as I see it "pedantic" is just a euphemism for "correct in a way I don't like". And this is HN; if you want to use words incorrectly and not get called on it, this is a bad place to post.