FCC’s claim that one ISP counts as “competition” faces scrutiny in court

[elix]

[QUOTE=joshthesmith;52813118]Tim Berners-Lee invented the internet, was born in Britain. Unless you are on about the invention of ISP's then I have no idea[/QUOTE]
Sir Tim didn't invent the protocols that connect the world together, he invented web pages. The Internet is so much larger than the WWW, and most of it was invented in US universities and government research labs operating under DARPA.

[Orpheus]

The internet and the World Wide Web aren’t the same thing?

What the [B]FUCK[/B]

[Mr. Someguy]

[QUOTE=Rixxz2;52811026]I find it pretty strange how the nation that invented the technology has like the shittiest infrastructure for it, all because a bunch of greedy cunts have established an oligarchy

It's a broken system man[/QUOTE]

The sad thing is back in the 90's we had a plan to be the first predominantly fiber country in the world, and to this end we gave ISP's huge tax breaks on the condition they use that money to build new networks. Instead they used it to give themselves bonuses and buy out competitors. We still don't have nation-wide fiber, a lot of places don't even have city-wide fiber, and those tax breaks are still in effect. One of the largest frauds in American History.

[God of Ashes]

[QUOTE=Mudkipslol;52812778]One football team on the field counts as competition.[/QUOTE]

hey a hundred miles away there's another team on a separate field now we have a ball game

[chemo]

Christ I can't even look at Ajit Pai's face without cringing, he has such a punchable goddamn smirk.

I can't wait until the day that this corporate cunt leaves office, he can burn in hell for all i care.

[spazthemax]

I can hardly believe the cheeky fucking buggery that is "lol you only have one choice for internet but since your neighbor has a different one choice it's ~competitive~"

[Flak]

[QUOTE=mcharest;52813482]The internet and the World Wide Web aren’t the same thing?

What the [B]FUCK[/B][/QUOTE]

There's a reason most websites were accessed with "www." for so long.

[elix]

[QUOTE=mcharest;52813482]The internet and the World Wide Web aren’t the same thing?

What the [B]FUCK[/B][/QUOTE]
Long story short, "The Internet" is the comprehensive global network of machines on which sit a whole bunch of services and layers. This is the physical layer and the foundations for how everything above the physical layer works: TCP/IP, DNS servers, all that.

The World Wide Web, what you access when you pull up your HTML-focused browser and hit a webpage like facepunch.com, is a service layer of the Internet, essentially. It involves different protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, etc.), and it can act as a gateway to nearly any other service layer with the right webpage/plugin.

Another popular service layer on the Internet is email. There are also the various streaming protocols, and telnet/SSH, even basic stuff we take for granted like ping is a feature of the greater Internet.

If it helps to understand, the Internet is what you get when you take a whole bunch of computers in different places and network them together. The World Wide Web is something you can [I]do[/I] with those computers once you've plugged them into the network.