Why is the web taking over the internet?
In the past, the main Internet service was e-mail. Everyone had
a central UNIX e-mail server for their business. UNIX was used on
most 'net-connected PCs, and telnet was used between them.
Nowadays, the World Wide Web is all you really hear about. telnet
has faded into obscurity, mainly due to its lack of eye-candy:
telnet could only provide plain-text, and occasionally coloured
text. E-mail still exists, mostly through services on the Web. Even
the most common Web browser is entitled "Internet Explorer" - the
Web has practically become the Internet.