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The web is with us all the time. It’s already moving into our cars, into our clothes, into the things we own, into monitoring our health.

Is he using the word 'web' instead of 'Internet'? Does anyone know of the web moving into our clothes?

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It's a very, very common synonym, short for world-wide web.

I'm aware. They shouldn't be used interchangeably.

Could you expand on that, I've heard people say this but I've never heard a good reason for why, they just assumed I understood it intuitively, when it wasn't too clear at all.

Well, pardon my analogy: Internet is like roads network - infrastructure which you use to run... WWW, which is type of traffic on road eg. cars

The internet is the world-wide network of computers. The web is HTTP and HTML and other such technologies, that may or may not run on top of the internet, but when they do they form the world-wide-web or web for short.

When people talk about clothes on the web, it's nonsense because they probably don't run HTTP.

The web is the network of hypermedia documents, the internet is the network of computer networks. A "web page" is a node in the graph of the web. A "computer" is a node in the graph of the internet. For practical purposes, the "internet" is the things that link together using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol and the "web" is things that link together using URIs.

The web is content, the net is machinery.

When you are on Xbox and playing against someone else, you are playing over the internet but you are not playing over the web. Similarly, you can download web pages but you cannot download the internet.

No. The term 'web' encompasses the protocols and standards. Generally HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, XML, JSON etc.

I have web-enabled weighing scales, web enabled radio, web enabled security cameras. If they were to use a different protocol (e.g. FTP) it would not be 'web'.

Honestly, since everything is tunneled through HTTP and sent using javascriptish storage notation and half the content is html anyhow, I think it's fair to say "the web" now. It's not the 90s anymore... Web technologies have take over the rest of the internet.

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