- From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 04:00:08 -0800
- To: www-tag@w3.org
"Simon St.Laurent" wrote: > >... > > That's hardly a boundary - it lets anything using URIs in, which can be > pretty nearly _anything_. But that has *always* been the point. All information in the same address space, with links between information objects. > So what is the Web? > > Conservatively, I'd suggest that: > The Web is a hypertext-based system built around the Hypertext Transfer > Protocol which uses a combination of marked-up information and software > to convey information to people. I'd take out the reference to HTTP, because FTP (for example) is also a Web protocol and something may some day replace HTTP. And I'd take out the reference to delivering information "to people" because I think it is not a good idea to segment the problem domain in that way. Ideally, the computer-automated and human-driven ways of accomplishing particular tasks would be architecturally identical. So I can download a site one page at a time or I can direct my computer to download the whole site. I can submit a purchase order through a web page or I can direct my computer to submit one directly from accounting software. And so forth... Paul Prescod
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