Internet is a network of computers and today we can include also gadgets like iPhone, SmartPhone, NetBook that somehow have something to do with the original concept of Computer, then eventually Internet is not the website or the portal, but rather the network that was created before,no matter what you do with it.
The web is instead a “universe” which was entirely invented on the Internet network and consists essentially in Server Software installed on some computers (server or host) scattered in some node on the Internet, and so we reach a different “level” than the previous one (internet). So Internet is different from the Web.
For years the web was populated by Websites, Portals, Social sites almost all sharing a few common patterns of development: PHP, HTML, Apache, Server-Client (the latter inherited from the very structure of the Internet), and all these products who populated the web could be called little “inventions” themself that gradually have been “unified” for example in a social network like Facebook. Just think that since joining Facebook at least the average population, with a medium-low knowledge of technology used for ICT has almost stopped using most of the services that previously were used in a deployed anywhere. With facebook you send “emails” (private messages from users), you can have conversations like “messaging”(chat), you can share files in the same manner as the file sharing (Post photos and videos), you can write articles like in a “blog” ( you can leave a message on somebody’s wall, you can create groups of discussions or thread like in the forums (leaving comments or tagging contents), today is also possible to create your own business on-line through Facebook … all this in the most total ignorance of the structure that we have below. We move into Facebook as we’re making steps in a big city, the only difference is that we ignore the fact that it’s a web-based environment which in the Internet’s terminology is seen as a single place.
Internet is the interconnection between the cities of the world in ways and means of transportation, once we used to go into the city-blog of one guy and then we used to send an email to another town of another guy… and so on. Then one day was builted one huge city, a super-equipped one and became sufficient to go to one town to do the activities for which in the past it was necessary to move through all those different cities … and that’s Facebook …
So, we got here, I see that the future of Internet may be few and huge environments that are now called social networks, which will be based on the current layer called social Web …. and our future layer of “action” will be at the top of this layer “social” that include real gigantic web applications that have an enormous range of languages, interfaces, etc … and so on to communicate with the levels below.
Internet is still stratified, today we are witnessing the formation of a layer formed by the giant social-networks that will interface with existing web and allowing entire groups of people to perform many operations that today would take hours if not months of work .
The entire Internet is based on the concept of levels, well Facebook is nothing but the last layer on which people built what they builted first on the underlying layer … Twitter and now Google Wave are other new good examples!
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