From lojbab@lojban.org Sat Aug 14 22:54:43 1999
X-Digest-Num: 211
Message-ID: <44114.211.1131.959273824@eGroups.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 01:54:43 -0400
From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>
Subject: Re: lei skami tanru pe la xod
X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 1131

At 11:55 AM 8/14/99 -0400, you wrote:
>From: "TommyLee Whitlock" <tommylee@whitlock.org>
>
> > The WWW is a collection of HTML documents served over HTTP, often using
> > TCP/IP.  The Internet is a huge, decentralized network using TCP/IP.
>
>Right, and thank you Billy for your excellent clarification!
>
>As an analogy, the WWW just a collection of billboards.  (Indeed, I have 
>heard
>the Web referred to as the billboards of the 90's ;))  The Internet is the
>road that takes you by them so you can read them.  The billboards are only 
>one
>service on the road, because there are also rest stops, diners, service
>stations, etc.

How about the Internet as a medium of communication/transmission xe benji 
then while the WWW sites are the transmitters.  Alternatively, the Internet 
is a dargu ciste, or a ciste dargu - a road system between points, some of 
which are WWW sites (which then become some kind of se dargu or possibly te 
ciste.

lojbab