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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
No, it isn't. Email, for example, is part of the Internet. The Web is just one of the many services that ride the Internet. It's mostly the young and inexperienced who think "the Internet" means "the Web" and nothing more. The kind of people who think 40 is old. The kind of people who think getting ones email is "never doing anything online" because it isn't the Web.
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Ah, but for those of us who exclusively use web-based services, the internet is synonymous with the web
And now, two anecdotes!
I interviewed a 40-ish woman last week who is applying to be my clerical support. She asked about pitfalls that come with the job, so I explained the two things my employer does that sometimes throws off people (especially in a clerical role): 1. we use Macs (for business!) and 2. we use entirely web-based software. I tried to explain that we use Google Apps and Gmail, so you log into your email on "the web", and this is convenient if you need to access your work email from outside the office (no vpn's to monkey with). After 5 minutes of trying to explain, her response was "oh, like Yahoo?"
Another woman I work with (also in the 40ish crowd) spent 30 minutes on her first day here trying to "log in to your internet" (she meant
intranet, and we don't have one). What she had done was open a Firefox browser to attempt to log in to the page set as the homepage, which was our online expense reporting software.
