In the excerpt for Hypertext and the World Wide Web it states:
But despite all of the advances that have taken place with the growth of the web, at its core the web is still just a collection of hyperlinked documents.
Is that really the case though? The hardware of a server for example is the web. Server software is an aspect too is it not? And more so what about a video file stored on a server waiting to be served? This statement suggests that even a video file at it’s core is a document. I guess I can understand it being sent through the network a nothing more than data 0s and 1s. None the less without physical hardware the web does not exist. Thoughts?
The hardware is what makes up the nodes of the network. Hypertext Transfer is what makes up the moving parts of the web. Everything on the network is a document, per se.