>> Strictly speaking, the Internet >> is considerably older and more inclusive than (Sir TBL's) "World >> Wide Web"! Usenet news groups, for instance, have never been part >> of the WWW, but they're certainly part of the Net.
> The question is (because speaking about protocol::http): is http used > outside the internet. I don't know. > One could argue it definetely is (because its used in intranets without > a connection to the internet)... Of course - I have installed http servers (for doc-browsing) even on machines that had no networking interfaces. Which shows that the label "internet" fails by excluding things it should include as well as by including things it should exclude. >> If a non-technical term is needed, what's wrong with "web"? > Sounds OK too, though I think the term internet is somewhat more > expressive. Agreed; unfortunately it's expressive of the wrong thing. -- JBR Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing) _______________________________________________ Debtags-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debtags-devel
