Internet defined
Maybe this is why it took so long for some newspaper executives to “get” the Internet: they read this definition and their eyes glazed over.
Sara Goo posted this image on her Facebook page and wrote: “From my first AP stylebook, circa 1995. Unearthed from a dusty box.”
The Internet and the Web are two different beasts.
We tend to use them interchangeably, but we should not.
Tim Berners-Lee invented the web which is what made all of this explode.
Without http:// we would be using the Internet for email and not much else.
The 1993 AP Stylebook at my desk goes straight from International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America to Interpol; no Internet at all. Or web or even World Wide Web. But it does offer a helpful related entry:
modem: Modulator/demodulator
At the WSJ in the late 1990s, the www was defined as “the graphical portion” of the internet. I have no idea what that boilerplate meant, but it was printed often, as I recall.
Yep, that “graphical, interactive portion of the Internet” thing lasted at some big pubs into the new century. My friends and I started making fun of it in about 97.
A colleague of mine worked for one of the major newsweeklies in about 1999 or 2000. At an editorial meeting, one of the top editors suggested a cover story about “the Internet.” When he was asked, well, what about the Internet?, he shrugged and said, “You know, the whole thing.” This was 4 or 5 years after Netscape’s IPO.
“graphical portion” vs. text-based gopher and ftp services.