On 16 Aug 2010, at 21:26, Miles Fidelman wrote: >> My reply would be to state that the Web subsumes the Internet in many ways. >> > My reply would be that I sure hope not. The trend toward pushing lower level > functionality on top of application layer protocols really breaks a lot of > the resiliency and flexibility that comes from layering.
Oops, my bad. You are right of course. I meant to illustrate that the Web is built on top of things, huge things. Like the Internet, and the telephone networks, or anything else you can shove TCP/IP over. I guess I think of it as being bigger than them because of that, if not technically, then conceptually. I'm very probably biased though.
