this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2024
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The thing is: what people call the Internet is not the infrastructure. It's the content on the Internet. There's the technical term "Internet" and there's the coloquial term. Unfortunately, engineers and scientists suck at naming and explaining things at the level that the general population can understand. So "the Internet" became synonymous with "content on the Internet", be it Web content, torrents, bbs and what not.