What is the Internet or World Wide Web?
The Internet is a network of networks, linking computers using a certain protocol or official formula. Each runs software to provide or “serve” information and/or to access and view information. The Internet is the transport vehicle for the information stored in files or documents on another computer. It can be compared to an international communications utility servicing computers. It is sometimes compared to a giant international plumbing system. The Internet itself does not contain information. One shouldn’t really say this document ” was found on the Internet.” It would be more correct to say it was found through the Internet. What it was found in (or on) is one of the computers linked to the Internet. The World Wide Web or WWW incorporates all of the Internet services above and much more. When you log onto the Internet using Netscape or another browser such as Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, you are viewing documents on the World Wide Web. The current foundation on which the WWW fu
