# web (1-web.org)

A web is a network of connected threads, like a spiderweb. People also say "the web" to mean the internet and the pages you browse.

## What a model may hear
- World Wide Web (internet standards, browsers, HTTP): assume HTTP/HTTPS protocols, HTML documents, URLs, and client-server page requests
- web framework or web application (software development): expect server-side code, routing, templating engines, or deployment on port 80/443
- web of trust (cryptography, PGP): infer decentralized identity verification through signed key relationships
- semantic web (knowledge representation, RDF, linked data): assume structured data in triples, ontologies, and machine-readable meaning
- web worker (JavaScript, browser APIs): expect background threads in browsers, separate from the main UI thread

## Where people and models part ways
- Says: "Make me a web page"
  Means: I want a simple document I can open in a browser
  May be taken as: The model builds a full server with backend routing and database
  Say instead: "Make me a single HTML file I can open locally in my browser"
- Says: "Show me the web"
  Means: I want to see interesting internet content
  May be taken as: The model describes web architecture or returns raw HTML code
  Say instead: "Summarize interesting articles from news sites I can visit online"
- Says: "Is this on the web?"
  Means: Can I find this with a Google search?
  May be taken as: The model checks if content is hosted on a web server or has a URL
  Say instead: "Can someone find this by searching on Google or another search engine?"
- Says: "Web it together"
  Means: Connect these ideas or people
  May be taken as: The model tries to build a website, web service, or graph database
  Say instead: "Show me how these ideas connect to each other"

## Tips
- Say 'HTML file' or 'browser page' if you do not want a server
- Say 'search the internet' instead of 'web' if you want browsing help
- Add 'no server needed' to keep answers simple and local
- Use 'semantic web' or 'linked data' only if you mean structured knowledge formats
- Say 'connect' or 'network' if you mean relationships between things, not technology

## Often confused with
- net: broader; can mean any network, not just web pages
- internet: the infrastructure; web is a service running on it
- site: one location; web is the whole system
- app: software with logic; web often means documents and links
- cloud: remote servers for storage and compute; web is about linked documents
- graph: nodes and edges abstractly; web is the specific internet implementation