Re: Off Topic - But Heinous

[throopw@xxxxxxxxx (Wayne Throop)]

:: A great deal of the Web goes OVER the Internet.  But they're not identical.

: Mike Ash <mike@xxxxxxxxxxx>
: The web is a fairly integral part of the modern internet.  To say that
: the internet is just TCP/IP is to be somewhat disingenuous at this
: point.  The US created large portions of it, but the web is a big
: chunk too.  You really can't say that any one individual entity
: invented it.

Well.  HTTP and HTML has a slightly better case for "one person"
inventing it (based on lots of other pre-existing ideas wrt hypertext
and network protocols and such, but still).  Which was done under the
auspices of CERN.

Any given protocol has a similar story, of course.  Though I'm not sure if
IP really had a single designer. in quite the same way as HTTP.

However, it's entirely fair to point out that "the web" and "the internet"
are, indeed, not identical.  "The internet" is often considered to be the
suite of IP-based protocols (and maybe the data being transported byt hem,
and/or some of the hardware upon which they run). The fact that this
includes HTTP, and HTTP is very often used to transport HTML, doesn't make
them identical, any more than a building and it's plumbing are identical,
or a car and its drivetrain, or a city and its traffic lights... or perhaps
more apt, a city and the cars and roads.

Indeed, not only "fair" but somewhat crucial understanding almost
anything about either one of them.


Wayne Throop   throopw@xxxxxxxxx   http://sheol.org/throopw