[9323] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Evolutionary question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Turner)
Tue Nov 21 18:16:52 1995
From: Stephen Turner <S.R.E.Turner@statslab.cam.ac.uk>
To: holtrf@destinyusa.com (Russell Holt)
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 23:12:55 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <v01510101acd7f50e55a9@[204.120.87.12]> from "Russell Holt" at Nov 21, 95 04:46:22 pm
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Russell Holt wrote:
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-> 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?
->
FWIW, I use it to refer roughly to documents with a URL: including ftp,
gopher, and probably newsgroups. I probably wouldn't include telnet or
mailto though. I certainly wouldn't restrict to HTML or HTTP. But YMMV.
--
Stephen R. E. Turner
Stochastic Networks Group, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge
e-mail: sret1@cam.ac.uk WWW: http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/home.html
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