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Pedantically speaking, Usenet and email at least are part of the web. They aren't http-based, but the "web" is really anything with addressable URIs, and both
by georgemcbay 14y ago
Pedantically speaking, Usenet and email at least are part of the web. They aren't http-based, but the "web" is really anything with addressable URIs, and both usenet and email have well-defined URI formats, eg:
nntp://<host>:<port>/<newsgroup-name>/<article-number>
mailto:<user>@<domain>
- aidenn0 14y agoI disagree with you, and so does wikipedia: "The World Wide Web (abbreviated as WWW or W3,[2] commonly known as the Web), is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet."
- sp332 14y agoYou can't really like email documents or accounts to each other, so I don't think they're part of the "web" of connected pages.
- Evbn 14y agoYou can link nntp news articles.
- rfugger 14y agoJust because a browser supports those protocols, doesn't mean they are part of the web, which uses HTTP.