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What a bunch of hogwash. Everything does not fit into the request/response model of HTTP and the Internet is certainly the web.
by WayneDB 14y ago
What a bunch of hogwash. Everything does not fit into the request/response model of HTTP and the Internet is certainly the web.
- eksith 14y ago"...the internet is certainly the web" sounds like religion to me. A highway is a type of road. As are streets, byways, lanes, courts etc... URLs need not be protocol specific, but having a standard makes inter-protocol communication that much simpler. In fact the post was primarily about how we label things (nouns, verbs etc...). I'd say most things fit the model of giving, taking and changing things, no?
- WayneDB 14y agoI meant to say the internet is NOT the web...as in not HTTP.
- sp332 14y agoEmail (not webmail, but IMAP and POP etc) uses the internet but is not part of the web. There are other examples but I think that's the easiest to see.
- bct 14y ago"The web" isn't exactly a well-defined concept. There's a school of thought in which anything with a URI is part of the web.
- sp332 14y agoEmails don't have URIs. My email boxes don't have URIs. My main problem is that there's no way to link emails together, so they're not really part of any web.