You know the WWW and the internet aren't the same thing right?
The Internet and the World Wide Web are not the same thing. The Internet—the underlying network connecting computers globally—was developed earlier (starting in the late 1960s with ARPANET). Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, which is an application running on top of the Internet that allows us to view web pages, media, and navigate via hyperlinks.
What if I told you that apps are just thinly disguised and highly specialized web browsers, designed to work with only one particular website?
All the work behind the scenes is just http requests to webservers, just the same as using reddit or twitter on a browser.
So, no, it's not true that 85% of people engaging with reddit or twitter aren't using the www in any way. 100% of people engaging with twitter or reddit are definitely using the WWW.
This is not true of how apps for reddit or Twitter work: they interface with an API, not an http webserver.
This is why reddits API policy changes broke all the third party apps, same for Twitter/X third party apps. Its also how X was able to shut down Xcancel by denying it API access.
Anyway, they are far removed from working anything remotely like "a thinly veiled web browser"
He’s sort of right since most apps (and I assume the Reddit app as well) are written with web technology but that doesn’t make them a browser since it’s all executed locally except the API calls
You're going to say ARPA, then someones going to ask who invented the technologies ARPA relied on, and thats when you'll realise theres something like 40 nationalities involved because no, it wasnt 'just' the US or 'just' someone else.
...in a decision not a single 'justice' would sign, and which can never be used as precedent. most don't know that there was supposed to FINally be an investigation into the stolen election the week of '9/11.' but as the buildings fell into their footprints, gore told us we had to fuggedabowdit, unite, and move forward. but everything's cool, because diebold is now called 'dominion!'
Most of the technology behind tweets is made by Americans in the US. Europeans shouldn't blame themselves, American researchers and developers would have come up with something without European contribution a bit later anyway.
That's just inaccurate, the US were the predominant semiconductor power for a long time, even into the 2010's intel US fabs were still dominant. There's a reason so much cutting edge chip design is still US based (AMD, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, etc), and that the US has major global leaders in wafer fabrication and deposition like applied materials and KLA.
The world wouldn't be able to make chips without American companies the exact same way America wouldn't be able to make chips without the rest of the world.
You should read about the global hardware supply chain. Netherlands and Taiwan are arguably the most important players in modern computing, along with Linus Torvalds (Finland) and Daniel Stenberg (Sweden) being the one man army they are.
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u/Lunnatheia 7h ago
Europe invented the World Wide Web. Unfortunately, that means we now have to read stupid tweets like this one.