Intraweb???

rgermain

I was just wondering, is it possible to call an intranet a intraweb. I was thinking there was no such thing, considering the web is part of "world wide web", But when I looked into it the "www" was defined as
"A system of Internet servers that uses HTTP to transfer specially formatted documents. The documents are formatted in a language called HTML (HyperText Mark-up Language) that supports links to other documents, as well as graphics, audio, and video files. One can jump from one document to another simply by clicking on hyperlinks. Not all Internet servers are part of the World Wide Web."

Now I am thinking maybe!

What are your thoughts?

stolzyboy

I "suppose" it could be called that, but that is why the word "intranet" was coined.

There are also "extranet's" that are built for intranet work, but are available in some way, shape, or form to the outside world, be it special customers/clients/etc...

So... I guess if you wanna sound funny! 😃 Go ahead and say intraweb...

stolzyboy

dalecosp

The terms "Internet" and "World Wide Web" are so easily confused by John Q. Public that it would simply make it worse to use both terms, although I understand your thoughts about the difference.

Most "intraweb" sites are rather boring compared to the wealth of information on other servers --- after all, the "intraweb" is just one company, organization, person, whatever. Isn't that why the "World Wide Web" caught on; people who were using early browser software to look at documents on their local networks discovered that some authors had included links to documents on distant servers, then that trend caught on with more server admins/authors, pretty soon you could not only read your research and the research of your colleagues, but also that of New Zealand Polytechnic, the Sorbonne, the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople, etc., etc...

Then M$ and organized crime discovered it, and the rest is sordid history....

Stolzy's got it; you can call it that, but it's not likely to catch on....

Sxooter

Generally the word "intraweb" has comical connotations associated with the non too internet savvy. It's often used by the internet savvy as a kind of self-effacing joke. For instance on the comic web site www.somethingawful.com there's a guy there (cliff) who hates everything, and uses the word intraweb a lot. There's a rather cute little picture of a guy in this link: kentucky it, the pic by scrappy_appleton with the alternate version of the word, the interweb that's pretty cute.

So, when used as a kind inside joke it's probably ok, but to use it in a sales presentation with all seriousness might result in some snickering by a few.

goldbug

When I see "intraweb", my mind reads "intarweb", as in,

"j00 suq at teh intarweb! lololololol"

😃

piersk

ur ju5t 2 l33t 4 ur own good m4n!

drawmack

Technically you cannot call an intranet and intraweb. The reason is that a company has a corporate headquarters which is the parent of the intranet even if portions of it are distributed, the main stay is still the HQ. This heirarchy stops if from being a web and keeps it as a net.

In a web all strands are equal.

In a net there is reinforcement at the top bottom and sides with everything in the middle tied to that framework.

Generally when you have distributed servers within a business you would call that an extranet and not an intranet. An intranet generally refers to a single server (or at least single location) setting.

AstroTeg

Originally posted by drawmack

Generally when you have distributed servers within a business you would call that an extranet and not an intranet. An intranet generally refers to a single server (or at least single location) setting.

Hang on...

Intranet: Usually a reference to an internal private network. What is on that internal network and the services it provides doesn't matter as much as who has access.

Extranet: An extension of an intranet (usually by limited access) made available outside the private network. Putting a web server in a companies DMZ that talks to an internal database that is shared with an intranet web server might be considered as part of the company's extranet. Servers are not distributed (at least in terms of "load balancing") to define extranet.

For simplified definitions:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=intranet
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=extranet

As for intraweb, it drives me nuts to see the word. I've seen posts where folks do something like, "I can't access the intraweb". I usually like replying with, "you may want to try accessing the Internet instead".

Elizabeth

IMHO I think it depends on the context. If you're keeping it in the company, you could call it pretty much anything you want, because it's only going as far as within the company:
-Corporate Information System
-File Exchange and Access System
-Bob's Network and House of Porn
-Intranet/Intraweb - doesn't matter

But if you're putting it on a resume as something you created yourself, I would tend to shy away from the non-conventional terminologies and just say "Intranet". 😉

rgermain

I guess my first opinion was correct and I was correct in arguing with the person about were calling their businesses intranet a intraweb.
This person works for the state of minnesota and sent me the address to their intranet and the creator of it even has it as http://intraweb.state.mn.us ....Or something like that. I thought it was plan goofy, but I just had to see what everyone else thought.

AstroTeg

Well, it depends on how technical you want to be regarding intranet and intraweb. One is found in the dictionary and one is not.

When you say "intranet" I'm thinking "internet / intranet" - one's an external network and one is internal. But when you say "intraweb", I think "uneducated".