Comments by "Martin Maat" (@MartinMaat) on "NFTs? Crypto? Web3? If you're confused, start here" video.

The internet is the electronic equivalent of the postal service.
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@Meshamu Yes. You can choose to define the internet technically but you might just as well define it functionally, like "my social life provider". Or "a modern times propaganda machine that will destroy us".
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@blucat4 Natural language is not math. Few words mean exactly one, unambiguous, context-free thing.
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@blucat4 It's a matter of perspective.
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@ArjanKop It wasn't accessible to the general public but universities were using a "hyper text" style web, text based web pages with hi-lighted words that were links to other pages. Text based meaning character screens, the terminals used back then attached to a central computer, like 80x25 characters rather than a pixel based graphics screen.
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@Adrian_kal Strictly speaking, TCP is not part of the internet. It stops with the network layer (IP). TCP is just a quality layer on top of it, in other words, already an application.
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@peter9477 I'm with you yet I cannot resist. "Web" originally refers to the multiple interconnections of nodes in which different paths exist from one node to another (as in a spider's web). As such it has nothing to do with web pages or the HTTP protocol. So one might argue "the internet" and "the web" are interchangeable terms.
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@peter9477 They are, like any other internet service, deployed in "the web". And because pages pulled over http became the most prominent and visible internet application, the term "web page" grew on us and became the document on the screen retrieved from a remote node.
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