17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Asgaard <asgaard@cor.sos.sll.se> wrote in article <5c92bo$lo9@life.ai.mit.edu>...
On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Jim Choate wrote:
The Web does not equal the Internet, straw man argument.
Actually at CERN we considered the Web to be a superset of the Internet protocols and others such as DECNET which ran on private networks such as our HEPNET. Since most of those private networks are now obsolete I would consider Web==Internet to be a reasonable equivalence. We always considered email and news to be part of the Web (news:, mailto:). The narrow view that the Web was only HTTP and HTML was a piece of Andressen propaganda. Phill