Re: Evolutionary question

Andrew McRae (andrew_mcrae@harvard.edu)
Tue, 21 Nov 1995 16:56:41 -0500

Hi.
[ Russell Holt wrote: ]
>These days, the term "World Wide Web" refers to what exactly? The collection
>of HTML documents accessible via the Internet? HTML docs + HTTP + CGI ?
>(or, excuse me, "network resources")... Is "The Web" separate
>from or an integral part of a browser's view of it?

Back in the days when info.cern.ch was the place to get definitive
information about the Web, it had one major page which described the Web
as basically HTML + HTTP, and another which described the Web as "the
universe of network-accessible information".

I don't think the precise meaning of the term has become any clearer
since then.

Cheers,
Andrew.

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Andrew McRae <andrew_mcrae@harvard.edu>