posted in Fediverse
We can do it again
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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org
Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
Oct 01, 2026, 11:32 PM
Replying to @naught101@lemmy.world
Finally someone who at least knows the difference between the WWW and the Internet…
Replying to @ExtraJudgement@lemmy.world
Lay it out for an old man, because up until about fifteen years ago the only people saying “world wide web” were grannies and corporaphones who couldn’t understand what the Internet was.
Replying to @Nemo@slrpnk.net
What’s there to lay out, other than what anyone can read from the Wikipedia entries?
The Internet is a specific global network of computer nodes that use some version of the Internet Protocol to communicate with each other. There are many different services over on it. The WWW is simply one such service.