[ih] What is the Web, was Re: weight of the internet

[David Finnigan]

It might be something different. My impression is that the Web is a 
concept which uses in part HTTP and the URL as just two of its vehicles. 
But the Web as a concept also unified Gopher, FTP, Netnews, and other 
protocols of the day under a single user interface as an information 
retrieval tool.

In short: the Web is a concept of unified information systems.

-David L. Finnigan



On 27 Mar 2025 10:19 am, John Day via Internet-history wrote:
> To be a purist, isn’t it even less than that?  The web is an
> application, not the Internet.
> 
> So wouldn’t it be what is in TCP and below?  ;-)
> 
> Amusing.
> 
>> On Mar 27, 2025, at 07:50, vinton cerf via Internet-history 
>> <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>> 
>> funny!
>> 
>> https://www.wired.com/story/weight-of-the-internet/#:~:text=At%20room%20temperature%2C%20the%20entirety,53%20quadrillionths%20of%20a%20gram.
>> 
>> hope this isn't paywalled
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