Re: Off Topic - But Heinous

[Mike Ash <mike@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

In article <slrnhsrk1l.eos.dbd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 dbd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (David DeLaney) wrote:

> Petem <petem001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >"G. Morgan" <usenet_abuse@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de groupe de
> >> BTW... Since the Internet was invented by the US government
> >
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web
> >
> >go read a bit and come back..
> >
> >The US govt did nit invented the web..
>
> Historical note: the Web is not the Internet. Neither one is Usenet. And
> all of them are also different from the set of ftp-able computers. There's
> also FIDOnet, and various others.
>
> A great deal of the Web goes OVER the Internet. But they're not identical.

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.

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Mike Ash
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