Re: [w3ctag/design-reviews] Question: Could the TAG help define "The Web Platform" vs "The Web" or some other useful distinctions? (Issue #1202)

bkardell left a comment (w3ctag/design-reviews#1202)

dan replied via www-tag email list, and I totally missed it

> Thanks. I should write this up properly.  We are im strange and changing times, and those can put pressure on established technologies to unpack and be explicit about things that are often kind of lumped together. For years everyone knew what “watching television” meant, even as cable, satellite, dvds and so on arrived. Now that staring at a painted wall (projection…) or a wristwatch, or a canvas in a webxr headset are also kind of “tv”, conversations about TV can’t take old definitions for granted. I think we’re headed there rapidly with “web” too.

> Dan

> ps. 
> Was ftp://ftp.example.net/pub/papers/1988/doe.j.foo.ps a web page before the web was created? There certainly were huge collections of documents and software on ftp sites, and mentions of them posted to mailing lists, usenet news etc., just without compact urls. This is kind of a goofy example but it also goes to the heart of the matter… 

> We talk about “the web” as if it were an inspectable entity, when it is something more like a set of shared practices you can place on a spectrum. At one end of the spectrum is a thing so daunting and complex that is costs 100s of millions of dollars to implement. At the other is something so simple and pluralistic that it sort of existed before it was named, and which could outlive HTML and HTTP just as it survived and encompasses Flash, Silverlight, Java applets, SGML, Postscript and PDF.

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