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To you and I, The Internet, Chrome, Google, The World Wide Web and Broadband are all different words with different meanings. But to most of the rest of the po
by londons_explore 3y ago
To you and I, The Internet, Chrome, Google, The World Wide Web and Broadband are all different words with different meanings.
But to most of the rest of the population, they think "I got out my phone, I typed 'best headphones 2023' and bought the best one I could afford".
Notice how they neither know nor care which browser they used, which search engine, which protocol, which website, etc. Those things are all irrelevant to what they were trying to do.
It's our job as engineers to make sure everything just works and those people don't need to know or care.
- bostonpete 3y agoThis seems like a non sequitur -- the parent was just pointing out that the article's use of "browser" was probably a typo. In addition to being more correct using "search engine" or just "search" in place of "browser" would have made that sentence more accessible to the "rest of the population" you're describing.
- bsimpson 3y agoI know a designer who uses the Google app as her web browser on iOS.