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sh1mmer on Dec 8, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apply for a Google Cr-48

You are thinking of the Internet. The Web is an abbreviation of the "World Wide Web" (of hyperlinks), rather than the medium which conveys its data.

gcb on Dec 15, 2010 [–]

touché. good point.

ok, so i must say web represent a very very very low priority on my internet usage. having only 'the web' would be like cable TV with only the weather channel.

No. Thanks.

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