George wrote:
> Blair P. Houghton wrote:
>
> >
> > The Internet was the NSFNet Internet Backbone (not ARPANET; that was
> > still a separate branch on the Internet).
> "The Internet was ... NSFNet...ARPANET..was... the Internet." How's that
> for parsing?
>
> I'll stand by my original phraseology where I used 'web' and not 'Web.'
> You can tell me what I meant, but that means nothing.

You can stand by anything, but it may be wrong, trebly so if your
"source data" comes from wikipedia.

ARPANET predated Internet. "The Internet" was a backbone. ARPANET
connected to it. Through a non-trivial piece of address conversion, at
that. "The Internet", afaik, is now gone. Nobody is on "The
Internet". But you won't get an argument from me that linguistic shift
hasn't made every network "the internet".

--Blair