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"The Internet functions because over 1300 servers provide a starting point for every (website) name used online. These are the root servers."

That would be the Web. It is hard to take anything this person says seriously when right at the start they confuse the Internet and the Web.

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He says "name", then ads "website" in parenthesis so non-technical people can understand. Without name resolution, most internet services will indeed fail.

what do you mean? DNS works not only for web. all internet-related things rely on DNS in one way or another. email, chats, FTP etc.

Some Internet related things use DNS. A lot do not.

and your point is ... ?

also: even if there are some things which do not rely on DNS, but proportionally speaking majority of things do rely on DNS - web, email, file sharing, chats, calls, you name it. it already gets to significant majority of internet activities, so ... your point is not clear.

No, they are writing about DNS, which is in the core of how the Internet works. Including the Web, yes, but virtually nothing on the Internet would work without DNS.

A lot of things wont work, but you still can't say Web and Internet are the same thing.

I also think it isn't fair to nitpick the article for it.

But the article doesn’t conflate the web and the Internet. The DNS root servers are necessary for the operation of all the Internet, just like the article says. Not just for the Web.

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