Re: Off Topic - But Heinous

["Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott Lurndal wrote:
> throopw@xxxxxxxxx (Wayne Throop) writes:
>>> Szymon <szymon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> I'd say that World Wide Web is a proper[1] subset of the Internet.
>>
>> So, the use of file:// uri/url-s means that filesystems are also
>
> URL - Universal Resource Locator.   If it as a http: prefix, it
> refers to the WWW, if a file: prefix, it doesn't.  So no, filesystems
> are not a proper subset of the internet.
>
> The WWW is one of many entities that can be described by a URL/URI.
>
> Fundamentally, the internet is a transport with various services
> built atop it, including the WWW, gopher, archie, NNTP access to
> Usenet, etc.

Fundametnally, the internet is a transport for porn, spam, and pirated IP,
with trace impurities of other stuff occasionally mixed in