The totally off-topic thread

[medhead]

Methinks you are getting world wide webs and the internet confused!

Not really, but I am going on about semantics and the generic meaning of words, so best to leave it at that I think.

BTW I see The Internet as being the same thing as The World Wide Web.

 

[markis10]

BTW I see The Internet as being the same thing as The World Wide Web.

I rest my case, its not!

 

[Mal]

I rest my case, its not!

Indeed.

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[medhead]

I rest my case, its not!

Whatever. I guess you don't appreciate the use of proper nouns. In any case you're wrong, and I see you've offered nothing to say otherwise.

Anyway, there is no plural for World Wide Web. There is only one of them if we refer to Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web

The World Wide Web (abbreviated as WWW or W3,[SUP][2][/SUP] and commonly known as the Web) is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet.

or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_World_Wide_Web

The World Wide Web ("WWW" or simply the "Web") is a global information medium

A system - Aglobal medium! Both are singular

 

[notzac]

Thank you notzac - at least you and Nigelinoz answered nicely. You aren't thinking of attending the Flyertalk Do at BNE QP on Saturday 3PM?

I'd actually clean forgotten about that one. A friend of mine is in town, so not massively likely that I'll attend (little bit of a shame, but oh well). Will send you a PM

 

[Nigelinoz]

Sorry medhead I am with markis10.
The world wide web and the internet are two different things,simply because the internet carries the marked up documents that make up web pages and it also carries the infrastructure to transmit and receive email,indeed the internet first started as a means of sending electronic mail.

The terms Internet and World Wide Web are often used in everyday speech without much distinction. However, the Internet and the World Wide Web are not one and the same. The Internet establishes a global data communications system between computers. In contrast, the Web is one of the services communicated via the Internet. It is a collection of interconnected documents and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs.[SUP][5][/SUP]

Cheers
N'oz

 

[medhead]

Sorry medhead I am with markis10.
The world wide web and the internet are two different things,simply because the internet carries the marked up documents that make up web pages and it also carries the infrastructure to transmit and receive email,indeed the internet first started as a means of sending electronic mail.


Cheers
N'oz

Oh, you also think there is more than one world wide web? Your information doesn't really back that up and that was my main point. Guess your wrong as well. There are no world wide webs, if we take Markis10 view of this exactly the same as there are no internets - in his opinion.

 

[PineappleSkip]

I'll give somebody a carton of Boags if they can set up my Blu-ray properly

Managed to set up a blu-ray in POM, does that qualify me? Happy to have a go in BNE, Lindsay

cheers skip

 

[Flashback]

Oh, you also think there is more than one world wide web? Your information doesn't really back that up and that was my main point. Guess your wrong as well. There are no world wide webs, if we take Markis10 view of this exactly the same as there are no internets - in his opinion.

World Wide Web is one "part" of the internet. It encompasses webpages, etc. There are many other components:!: E-mail, FTP, Gopher, Usenet. The list goes on.....

Why don't we go as far back as 1969 and the ARPANet?

 

[medhead]

World Wide Web is one "part" of the internet. It encompasses webpages, etc. There are many other components:!: E-mail, FTP, Gopher, Usenet. The list goes on.....

Why don't we go as far back as 1969 and the ARPANet?

Really! You don't say! (of course it is not part of the Internet at all) BUT lets skip to my main point. There is only one Web! Everyone throwing cough at me have told me that there is only one web, I quoted quoted the same thing that says there is only one Web. So why don't you lot go and throw some cough at the person who does not get this basic fact.

Methinks you are getting world wide webs and the internet confused!

Thats what I thought, plenty of WWWs but only one Internet!

Perhaps if I edit my previous line for the IT crowd you might be able to see how your limited interpretation of one line is wrong!

Not really, but I am going on about semantics and the generic meaning of words, so best to leave it at that I think.

BTW I see The Internet as being the same thing as The World Wide Web, a singular entity.

Perhaps it was my fault for thinking you might be able to understand the use of proper nouns in that line. (you all might have even picked up on when i mentioned proper nouns in my next post) Whatever! You're all still wrong, particularly in totally misinterpreting what I wrote.

BTW I guess if you do go back to ARPANet you'll see that there can be many internetworks.

 

[Flashback]

BRB, off to get some tissues for various people...

 

[anat0l]

Maybe I should segue the current WWW & Internet debate with one of which is better - vi or emacs?

Oh, and if you say pico or nano, get out of here..... :mrgreen:

 

[Flashback]

Maybe I should segue the current WWW & Internet debate with one of which is better - vi or emacs?

Oh, and if you say pico or nano, get out of here..... :mrgreen:

I don't mind nano, nice and easy to use :mrgreen:

 

[ReLoad]

Maybe I should segue the current WWW & Internet debate with one of which is better - vi or emacs?

Oh, and if you say pico or nano, get out of here..... :mrgreen:

A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away from here, I used to be a SCO ACE, and its defiantly vi.

 

[drmikki]

I don't wish to upset anyone in this grammatical debate, but both internets and it's cousin interwebs are used by Gen Y, particularly the geekier end of the spectrum. (Or maybe that's just my friends... ) However, I believe 'internets' is attributable to the noted linguist, George W Bush...

Urban Dictionary: internets
Urban Dictionary: interwebs

 

[straitman]

My suggestion is that there is no more discussion about the www and/OR if anyone takes anymore shots at others then their posts are deleted :!:

 

[Mal]

Maybe I should segue the current WWW & Internet debate with one of which is better - vi or emacs?

Oh, and if you say pico or nano, get out of here..... :mrgreen:

Notepad? Hehe. Having used both vi and emacs and still using vi at times i suggest vi. Easy to use once you get to know the syntax.

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[anat0l]

A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away from here, I used to be a SCO ACE, and its defiantly vi.

If you were right here I'd shake your hand. Go vi!

I could never get emacs.

vi was immensely more useful to when all you're given is Minix or BusyBox, because damn straight there ain't gonna be emacs on it!

 

[Katie]

vi, but I haven't used emacs that I can remember any more. Or FrameMaker + SGML on UNIX.

You'll also see Gen X using "the interwebs", etc, not just Gen Y.

If there were a plural for internet, the internetworks might be a possibility. Please note subjunctive mood here.

 

[oz_mark]

Edt on a Vax is where it was at