25 Innovations That Shaped the 'Net
It's all in there: Google, Amazon, Yahoo and eBay (not to mention parent company AOL). Newcomers like YouTube, MySpace and bloggers are all represented, as are the really important things we all take for granted these days, like e-mail, graphics and instant messaging.
Number one on the list: the World Wide Web. (If you're thinking to yourself, "But the Internet and World Wide Web are the same thing," you should read this.) Interestingly, spam, spyware, gambling and porn also made the list.
Not on the list? Crappy, overpriced, over-hyped Super Bowl ads.
From USA Today
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Sandy @ May 1st 2007 8:43PM
What a load... "Internet and web are two different things"... Sort of like saying cars and traffic are two different things. Some real geek must have written that column. You are depreciating the coinage when you write that kind of technobabble. The web (and sorry, geek, the Internet) belongs to the people. Those who worry about such distinctions are the same kind that think hacking is OK because "experts" are entitled to atack amateurs and comercial users who have less right to use the web.
bill @ May 1st 2007 8:58PM
i think the net got worst as the dirty pop ups that pop up i have grand children that uses the computer for there home work then they call me to show me what pop up i had aol for a long time i think they should stop them from doing it no matter how you block them they keep poping up
Chuck @ May 1st 2007 9:23PM
Sandy, it would be more like saying Cars and the road on which they travel are two different things. That distinction is very much worth mentioning if most people thought that cars and roads were one in the same.
Internet = Road
Car = Web page on the "road"
Vanessa @ May 1st 2007 9:42PM
I'm with Chuck. The distinction bewteen the Internet and the Web is important. I would hate for the emails I send over the internet to be available on the Web . . .
Tay @ May 2nd 2007 4:05PM
Youtube is new??
mike @ May 3rd 2007 6:34AM
seriously web and internet are different! so flippin re-re must of put that up! there just wasting r time by making us read this stuff. i hate these kinda things! only thing i like about them is the comment thingys! i like to leave rly long comments ((lol))!
Kelly Jad'on @ May 3rd 2007 7:19AM
I understand the concept you're explaining here, in its simplified version. Whether accepted by others or not, the web/internet provides an essential usefulness like no other medium can. Recently, my father developed pancreatic cancer. I searched, found specialists and even researchers who treat and study the disease around the world. The web/internet allowed me to email each one directly, and they in turn responded--some while in meetings! This to me is absolutely incredible!
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Bolt @ May 3rd 2007 7:56AM
THE NEXT YOUTUBE............http://www.gofish.com/
Jeff @ May 3rd 2007 8:02AM
Um.. Whoever wrote this is pretty stupid if they honestly believe everything they listed was a unique innovation.
Google for one is an over-invested company that tries to please the investors by purchasing site left and right.
Youtube is just a video hosting site where fat and friendless people can gather to feel a sense of popularity.. Lesser video hosts have been around for a long time.
Myspace.. An improved copy of AOL hometown pages.. Nothing more..
..Is it my imagination or whoever wrote this was struggling to make a list of 25 things and didn't really know what the hell they were doing.
Z @ May 3rd 2007 8:09AM
Think of the internet as the road, and the web as a car. Other cars are email, Internet Telephone, file transfers, and all non-web computer traffic. Just because you don't know the difference doesn't mean there isn't one. They all use the Internet, but they all use different ways of moving their 'cars'!
David @ May 3rd 2007 8:14AM
Hold on now...If we have questions about the difference between the internet and the web, we should ask Al Gore. After all, he invented it.
Bolt @ May 3rd 2007 8:17AM
THIS YOU ALL HAVE TO SEE!!!Michael Downing - GoFish http://mefeedia.com/entry/2442110/
Stranger @ May 3rd 2007 8:22AM
@ Sandy - Think of it this way - the internet is the hardware, the "web" is the software.
David @ May 3rd 2007 8:32AM
Ok the elementry school metaphors are getting old.
Jeff @ May 3rd 2007 8:34AM
As well as elementary spelling David.
David @ May 3rd 2007 8:38AM
Jeff made a good point earlier when he commented about the origin of web and internet. None of this is new. In fact, the world wide web, before it was called that, was an invention of WWII sciencist who cerated an electronic mailing system so that the axis countries could not interept infromation.
To know the difference, go to the origin and study it.
David @ May 3rd 2007 8:39AM
Thanks for correcting my spelling, Not enought coffee yet.
Tracy @ May 3rd 2007 8:39AM
Bill, try going to your "safety" icon on the top of your tool bar; from there go to "Settings" then scroll down to "Pop-Up Control Settings"; from there you should be able to block out those pop ups. You also go to "Parental Controls" to set limits on what your grandchildren do while online. You can also set Google's search engine under their Safe Search Filtering: http://www.google.com/preferences?hl=en.
The net/web has been a great way for me to meet people from all over the world; from Iceland to Norway, from the West Coast to the East. If it was not for the web/net I would have never know such interesting people. It has also been a great way for me to keep in touch with my children. From learning about history to finding out medical facts; there is a wealth of information that can be found everyday on the net/web.
Jeff @ May 3rd 2007 8:49AM
Thanks David :) And I was considering posting the war internet thing also.. It just seems the guy who made this regurgitates stuff he's found on the internet and adds a line or two at the end. *Look at his information when you click his, "the author's" name.
Princess phoenixxx @ May 3rd 2007 8:58AM
i think internet porn is saving the world, hell look at the new fetished it has helped develope like financial domination!! www.princessphoenixxx.com