What is the difference between the Internet & the World Wide Web?
“The Internet” or “Net” is a much broader term than the “World Wide Web”, although most people who refer to the Internet actually mean a Web-site available on the a World Wide Web. The Internet is the network of interconnected computers, across the world, that use a common system to communicate with each other. This communication protocol is known as TCP/IP ( Transmission Control Protocol- TCP; and Internet Protocol- IP). Lots of different programs also use the Internet: including email and games. The term “World Wide Web” or “Web” is used to describe the information that your computer web browser can see, on web sites available to the public from anywhere in the world. The “Web” of information is only possible because the “Net” connects computers, and that allows web browsers to call up information held on web server computers.
