>The "web" also means the whole internet stack, TCPIP, DNS routing, etc. In that case, the web is a foundational tool for anything that connects people or Inter

>The "web" also means the whole internet stack, TCPIP, DNS routing, etc. In that case, the web is a foundational tool for anything that connects people or Internet Of Things. To say the "web works best as a document platform" is like saying "the electricity grid works best as a lightbulb platform." We've gotten past the historical motivations of a interconnected electricity and have done other things with it. No, absolutely not. The "web" refers only to what you mentioned above. It's only a recent bastardization that we started referring to the "Internet" as the "web", because of the dominant nature of HTTP. You're right though that the Internet is important, but the GP's point stands that HTTP was really only intended as a document protocol (Hypertext, yeah?) and it has seems a somewhat strange perversion that we've bent it to doing so much more. Someone not in the know may call the transmission in a car "an engine", or call the differential a transmission. Just because someone outside of the industry does silly things like that doesn't mean all of a sudden obfuscate the usefulness of terminology at all, as it really helps no one.