At least the 'web' part makes more sense than the 'assembly' part ;)
WASM was designed as a successor to asm.js, and asm.js was purely a web thing. While non-web-platforms were considered as a potential use case (in the sense of "using WASM outside the web should be possible", it wasn't clear at the time what the successful usages outside browsers would even look like).
WASM was designed as a successor to asm.js, and asm.js was purely a web thing. While non-web-platforms were considered as a potential use case (in the sense of "using WASM outside the web should be possible", it wasn't clear at the time what the successful usages outside browsers would even look like).