Re: [Air-l] Internet -- Source or Medium?
Maciej Kos raises an interesting question, and one that seems to get at the heart of the changes in language and common usage. It seems to me that we might really be talking about (at least) 2 things here: the internet (with large or small "i"), and the world wide web. The internet then can be thought of as a medium through and across which we can access the content stored on the servers that comprise the world wide web. But as my (decidedly techno-fluent) undergraduate students recently pointed out: they use the web and the internet every single day and have no idea what the difference is between the internet and the web. So, does this internet/web distinction still hold, or have we moved onto some new paradigm? Best wishes, Richard Parent University of Vermont
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Richard Parent