25 Innovations That Shaped the 'Net

Youtube is new??

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.

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

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"

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 . . .

What you put on the internet, is on the internet forever, be careful what you say a lot of people may, can, and will see and read what you put on the internet now or 10 years from now.

i was at the door of suicide because of the lack of sexuality in my life. a drone like THX-1138 i'd became with no hopes or reason to exist...
... then i discovered The Net and my saviour PORN.
Life is good now. Thank-you, Web/Internet, God bless you!

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))!

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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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.

THE NEXT YOUTUBE............http://www.gofish.com/

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.

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'!

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@ Sandy - Think of it this way - the internet is the hardware, the "web" is the software.

Ok the elementry school metaphors are getting old.

As well as elementary spelling David.

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.

Thanks for correcting my spelling, Not enought coffee yet.

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.