Tim Berners-Lee: Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter - eviltoast
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    The World Wide Web is more or less the Internet as most users see it - HTML documents located via URLs shared over the HTTP protocol. But that’s just one specific protocol used for sharing a specific kind of content (hypertext). It turns out you can do a whole lot with that, hence the ubiquity of the Web.

    But the Internet as a whole is broader than that. There are other protocols, other content to share, other ways to locate data. For a down-to-earth familiar example, just consider any online multiplayer game. You’re using the Internet to communicate to the game’s servers to play the game, but that Internet traffic is certainly not part of the Web.