The Difference Between the Internet and World
Wide Web
Many people use the
terms Internet and World Wide Web (aka. the Web) interchangeably, but in fact
the two terms are not synonymous. The Internet and the Web are two separate but
related things.
What is The Internet?
Internet IconThe
Internet is a massive network of networks, a networking infrastructure. It
connects millions of computers together globally, forming a network in which
any computer can communicate with any other computer as long as they are both
connected to the Internet. Information that travels over the Internet does so
via a variety of languages known as protocols.
Quick Points about The Internet:
It is a global
network connecting millions of computers.
The Internet is
decentralized.
Each Internet
computer is independent.
There are a variety
of ways to access the Internet.
There are more than
3,700,000,000 Internet Users in the world.
What is The Web (World Wide Web)?
Web IconThe World
Wide Web, or simply Web, is a way of accessing information over the medium of
the Internet. It is an information-sharing model that is built on top of the
Internet. The Web uses the HTTP protocol, only one of the languages spoken over
the Internet, to transmit data. Web services, which use HTTP to allow
applications to communicate in order to exchange business logic, use the the
Web to share information. The Web also utilizes browsers, such as Internet
Explorer or Firefox, to access Web documents called Web pages that are linked
to each other via hyperlinks. Web documents also contain graphics, sounds, text
and video.
Quick Points about The Web:
It is a system of
Internet servers that support specially formatted documents.
Documents are
formatted in a markup language that supports links to other documents.
You can jump from one
document to another simply by clicking on hot spots (hyperlinks).
Applications called
Web browsers that make it easy to access the World Wide Web.
There are more than
1,275,000,000 Websites.
The Web is a Portion
of The Internet
The Web is just one
of the ways that information can be disseminated over the Internet. The
Internet, not the Web, is also used for email, which relies on SMTP, Usenet
news groups, instant messaging and FTP. So the Web is just a portion of the
Internet, albeit a large portion, but the two terms are not synonymous and
should not be confused.
DID YOU KNOW... In March
1972 Ray Tomlinson wrote the first basic email program. In 1976 Queen Elizabeth
II sent an email.
(Source: Brief
Timeline of the Internet)
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