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>or even 'surfing' as the internet was intended to be used.

The Internet was not intended for surfing at all. It was intended to be a network with enough reliability to withstand nuclear attacks. You’re thinking of stuff on top of it like maybe the World Wide Web (HTML links).

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Ok, sure. But pedantry aside, I used the word 'Internet' as OP did. At this point the Internet and WWW are synonymous.

Are they? It seems like native apps have been gaining ground on the web since the rise of smartphones.

I completely disagree. The WWW is just an application that rides the internet. Surely you make use of streaming video, voip, and email

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