Terminology - your advice?

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,

online is a state ... you are online
the web are those websites that start with www typically, they are the ones
you use a browser for
the internet is both the infrastructure that connects computers through an
open connection and it is loosely the same as the web except that there are
more services that use Internet protocols that are NOT websites.`

I hope this is a bit clear.
Thanks,
      Gerard


On 12 August 2013 21:03, Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org> wrote:

> SignWriting List
> August 12, 2013
>
> Question for everyone…
>
> I am trying to update my terminology…
>
> What is the difference between these three terms?  Online…Internet….Web
>
> For example, when a document is "on the web", is that the same as "reading
> a document online"?
>
> Is an Online Course the same as a Course on the Web, or a Course on the
> Internet?
>
> I looked some of this up on Google, and some of the answers I got are
> pasted below, but I am still not sure…
>
> When I want to direct someone to read a document in SignPuddle Online….is
> that a document on the web? a document online? or a document on the
> internet?
>
> smile…
>
> and when people offer courses online, are they really on the web? or are
> they in something else other than HTML? what happens if it is PHP? is that
> on the web?
>
> smile …
>
> Anyone have a quick explanation understood by all? ;-)
>
> Val ;-)
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> Google searching...
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> *Answer: **The Internet and the World Wide Web have a whole-to-part
> relationship*. The Internet is the large container, and the Web is a part
> within the container. It is common in daily conversation to abbreviate them
> as the "Net" and the "Web", and then swap the words interchangeably. But to
> be technically precise, the Net is the restaurant, and the Web is the most
> popular dish on the menu.
>
> Here is the detailed explanation:
>
> *1: The Internet is a Big Collection of Computers and Cables.*
>
> The Internet is named for "interconnection of computer networks". It is a
> massive hardware combination of millions of personal, business, and
> governmental computers, all connected like roads and highways. The Internet
> started in the 1960's under the original name "ARPAnet". ARPAnet was
> originally an experiment in how the US military could maintain
> communications in case of a possible nuclear strike. With time, ARPAnet
> became a civilian experiment, connecting university mainframe computers for
> academic purposes. As personal computers became more mainstream in the
> 1980's and 1990's, the Internet grew exponentially as more users plugged
> their computers into the massive network. Today, the Internet has grown
> into a public spiderweb of millions of personal, government, and commercial
> computers, all connected by cables and by wireless signals.
>
> No single person owns the Internet. No single government has authority
> over its operations. Some technical rules and hardware/software standards
> enforce how people plug into the Internet, but for the most part, the
> Internet is a free and open broadcast medium of hardware networking.
>
> Here is a conceptual diagram of the Internet and how it contains many
> forms of online communications<http://netforbeginners.about.com/library/diagrams/nwww2.htm>
>
> *2: The Web Is a Big Collection of HTML Pages on the Internet.*
>
> The World Wide Web, or "Web" for short, is a massive collection of digital
> pages: that large software subset of the Internet dedicated to broadcasting
> content in the form of HTML pages. The Web is viewed by using free software
> called web browsers. Born in 1989, the Web is based on hypertext transfer
> protocol <http://internet.about.com/library/aa_protocols_071202.htm>, the
> language which allows you and me to "jump" (hyperlink) to any other public
> web page. There are over 65 billion public web pages on the Web today.
>
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