On Mar 13, 2006, at 4:24 PM, Denise N. Rall wrote:
People are still confounding the internet with the WWW.
Last term all of my freshmen bar one (a techie) thought the Internet and the web were the same thing. I thought they were supposed to be a wired generation, raised on gaming consoles and with cell phones and such. I had a difficult time explaining it since it caught me off-guard. Perhaps if "web browser" is a medium (with a BS in math/computer science, I disagree with myself there), and since they do so much through web browsers (but not all), they confound everything. Really I think this is interesting, but moot: it just depends on your definition. ^_^ ndp... On Mar 13, 2006, at 4:24 PM, Denise N. Rall wrote:
--- "Christopher J. Richter" <crichter@hollins.edu> wrote:
media, as Anders suggests. In fact, I would go so far as to say that the internet taken broadly shouldn't be considered as a medium at all, but a domain or infrastructure for various media. But as
Thanks Christopher for stating the obvious. The internet IS the infrastructure and other things happen on it. The packet could care less. Its 'purpose in life' is to get from point A to point B, preferably without colliding with any other packet (if it does, ethernet constraints tell it what to do). It carries data not messages. The messages, etc. are coded at one end and decoded at the other end. The internet is not a media! although I can see how it carries that burden today. People are still confounding the internet with the WWW. The web has expressive elements, the internet does not.
A losing battle here, but that's me on record as a former IT technologist.
Cheers, Denise
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