A while back, I heard an ad on the radio that included this gem:
The Internet used to be called the World Wide Web.
Now, this is wrong in every important respect. The “World Wide Web”, if it refers to anything, refers to the universe of cross-linked hypertext documents. Those documents are stored on computers connected to the Internet. That is, the WWW is built on top of, and depends upon the Internet, which is a much more general thing.
The Internet dates from 1969. The WWW dates from 1991.
Grumpy
In other get-off-my-lawn news, I don’t think I’ll ever get used to hearing Guns ‘n’ Roses songs played on “Classic Rock” radio stations.
