[kortilla]

>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).

[quake]

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

[austincheney]

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

[kevinventullo]

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