- From: Reinier Post <rp@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 14:09:34 +0200
- To: www-talk <www-talk@w3.org>
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 07:46:29AM -0400, Dick Vile wrote: > > > Consider the URI schemes "ftp", "news", "mailto", "pop", "imap", and > > > "telnet". These schemes depend on the Internet but have little to do > with > > > HTTP. Are the related resources and services part of the Web? I > would say > > > yes. > > > > I would say no. [...] > Humpty Dumpty said it best: "I can make a word mean whatever I want it > to mean" > > -- Dick Vile in Ann Arbor, MI USA But this is a very common way of using the term "Web". I would venture to say that practically all (but not all) professionals use the term in this way. It wasn't the use Tim Berners-Lee intended, but I think the discussion here is about the "de facto" meaning of "Web". -- Reinier Post TU Eindhoven
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