The amount of conflation between "the Internet" and "the Web" is way too high in here. It is the most popular protocol, but it is not the only protocol.
This trick doesn't work because you cannot talk about the Web without also talking about HTTP, the protocol that runs it.
The Internet is made up of MANY protocols, of which you could be talking about ANY, not just the Web. SSH, Gopher, SMTP, they're all Internet, but they're not the Web, and the Web isn't the entirety of the Internet.
Words mean things but of course count on humans to be stupid with them.
