Parsing the difference between the Internet and the Web according to Alan Kay

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What did Alan Kay mean by: “The Internet was done so well, but the Web, in comparison, is a joke. It was done by amateurs”?

When digital pioneer Alan Kay speaks, programmers listen. But like anyone who puts forward an opinion, Kay opens himself up to being misinterpreted. That was the case last July, in an interview with long-running publication *Dr. Dobb's Journal*. At one point the inventor of object-oriented programming chimed in:

    The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.

Stack Exchange user kalaracey can't have been the only programmer confused about the meaning of Kay's quote, but he's the one who asked about it. Several devs answered.