What is the Internet?
A nice article here in The Observer by Professor John Naughton, which neatly captures much of the difficulty that many have in understanding the Internet. I do like his distinction between the Web and the Internet – the train / track analogy seems a good one, worth a go when trying to explain this to colleagues who are stuck in a browser-based view of the Internet.
By coincidence, I read this today having attended an earlier discussion at work about “Web Strategy”, in which we debated whether we meant Web or Internet, or just plain dissemination! It would be good to have that discussion again after everyone has read this article.
I’m less sure about “web 3.0″ – the Semantic Web looks more like a different kind of train running on the same track than an enhancement of the “web 2.0″ train, but that is a minor point, and as he says in his postscript, “It’s too early to say”.
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