The document compares The New Yorker magazine, founded in 1925, to the World Wide Web, created in 1989. It notes their key differences such as The New Yorker being authoritative, focused, high-quality, polished, weekly, finished, one-way, and costs money, while the Web is democratic, distracting, emphasizes quantity over quality, is fast-paced, constantly changing, mutable, two-way, and free. It then discusses how The New Yorker has adapted to the digital age by creating mobile and tablet apps to keep up with readers' changing habits.