What is the difference between the Internet, the web, and email?
The Internet is the communications architecture behind the graphic face of the World Wide Web, and email is a “letter” sent via the Internet to someone. Just as the programming code of a web page is translated into a graphic presentation in a browser, an email is translated into binary code, transported across the Internet using the instructions found within the email address, to the recipient who has software that again translates the binary code into text so they can read the message. Think of the Internet as a great big phone company. Through its communications services, you can talk on the phone, send faxes, and play on the Internet, but it is still part of the phone company, capable of a variety of services.
