The Web is widely understood to refer to interconnected resources* with links between them. Aside from that, you're on pretty shaky ground here. The person on

The Web is widely understood to refer to interconnected resources* with links between them. Aside from that, you're on pretty shaky ground here. The person on the street has no idea what HTML or HTTP(S) are. It's not unlikely that they have never even heard of them. Which means you've committed yourself to defending the semi-informed technologist who thinks they know what they're talking about except that they don't. That's a lot narrower of a demographic than your appeal to popularity here lets on (or would even help with—assuming that we don't throw it out on the grounds that it's just an appeal to popularity). * usually pages; sometimes apps; and probably you could get people to pretty quickly acknowledge stuff like images, etc. if you brought it up ("oh, yeah; those too").