Doyle Saylor wrote:
> Greetings Pen-'Ellers,
> KGC writes,
> But there is an idea floating around geekdom that the Web works (in the
> sense that it scales 5B+ documents, something which no one really
> expected) because of various purely technological ideas...
>
i could use some clarification of the statement above. does it mean that
in "geekdom" there is an idea that the web "works" *only* because of
technological ideas? if not, then the claim is a truism isnt it?
some additional questions:
1. what is "the web"? is it the internet + the various web servers and
documents that they serve?
2. what does scaling to 5b+ documents mean? 5b+ html files stored
somewhere on networked computers? 5b+ documents transmitted in
parallel (i.e., capacity)?
--ravi
