Arachnophobes may have found it difficult to log into AOL back in the halcyon days of the internet - why would anyone who is afraid of spiders voluntarily go onto a web?
We’re joking, of course, but while the internet we use day-to-day can be filled with some unseemly characters, the reason it’s called the web has little to do with spiders and much more to do with interconnectivity; a web of pages and sites all linking to each other.