what is the difference between the Internet and the worldwide web?

Answer 1

www is just a part of the internet.

There are many other parts. Newsgroups, email and so on. The internet is the backbone that carries the information for these different programs. That is all.

Contrary to what some are saying here that there "isn't a difference". Those people just don't know any better. The internet was here long before the World Wide Web (www)

Answer 2

There is a difference bn www and internet

www - is a application that utilizes the internet to transport hypertext or multimedia documents.
and also there is a lot of channels in www like www32, www followed by a number for different channels.
www was created by " Tim berness lee " as a simple way to publish information and make it available on the INTER NET.

And
INTERNET- is a network of networks.The internet can be tought of as a very large group of networked computers.
it refers the global information.


The w.w.web is transported over the internet

Answer 3

Believe it or not there is a difference. Think of it like television. The internet is one channel, it's the most popular 'cause it has graphics, sounds, video, etc.. There are other channels that are text only. Still there are channels that only carry machine or device language. Most folks don't have much use for those other channels 'cause those channels are so specialized.

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Answer 4

There has always been a lot of misunderstanding about the terms Internet and World Wide Web so I hope this helps to put the record straight.

Most of the advances in technology in the 1940s and 1950s - cryptography, radar, battlefield communications - were due to military operations during World War II, and it was, in fact, U.S. government activities that led to the development of the Internet.

In 1957, the U.S.S.R. launched Sputnik, man’s first foray into outer space, and the U.S. government under President Eisenhower subsequently launched an aggressive military campaign to compete with and surpass the Soviet activities. From the launch of Sputnik and the U.S.S.R. testing its first intercontinental ballistic missile, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was born. ARPA was the U.S. government’s research agency for all space and strategic missile research. In 1958, NASA was formed, and the activities of ARPA moved away from aeronautics and focused mainly on computer science and information processing. One of ARPA’s goals was to connect mainframe computers at different universities around the country so that they would be able to communicate using a common language and a common protocol. Thus the ARPAnet -- the world’s first multiple-site computer network -- was created in 1969, and eventually this evolved to produce the Internet. It was based on the concept that there would be multiple independent networks that began with the ARPAnet as the pioneering network but would soon include satellite networks and ground-based radio networks.

So much for the Internet; so what’s the World Wide Web? It was developed by a British Scientist called Tim Berners-Lee.

In 1991 Tim Berners-Lee completed the original software for the World Wide Web (WWW), the hypertext system he had first proposed in 1989. He saw the WWW as a shared information space -- a web of hypertext documents -- within which people could communicate with each other and with computers.

Berners-Lee had been motivated to design the WWW because he and his colleagues in the high-energy physics community were frustrated by computing incompatibilities. Their vast stores of data were difficult to access and exchange due to differing encoding formats and networking schemes.

Berners-Lee was working at CERN (Centre Européan pour la Recherche Nucléaire; European Laboratory for Particle Physics), in Geneva, Switzerland, when he developed the WWW. He hoped that the WWW would be transformed from its origins as an information-retrieval system for physics researchers into a public information and communication device available on all computing platforms.

By 1991 he had developed the components of the WWW system. He worked from several criteria: flexibility and minimal constraint, compatibility with numerous languages and operating systems; capability to record random links between objects; ease of operation. The first version of the WWW included three basic architectural principles to accommodate these criteria. The first was called Universal Document Identifier (UDI), an address scheme for pointing the system to a particular location within the WWW information space. Later they were renamed Universal Resource Locators (URLs). The second was the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) serving as the protocol for accessing data and traversing hypertext links. The third was the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), a documentation code.

Berners-Lee unleashed the WWW first within CERN, then throughout the physics-research and hypertext-programming communities, and finally onto the Internet. Most significantly he made it available to EVERYONE!

To summarize, the Internet is of American military origin and is the “hardware”, i.e., the computing power and the communication systems, dating back to the 1950s. The World Wide Web (WWW) is of British and European origin that came on stream during the 1990s and is the “software”, i.e., a system of coding that allows the relatively easy production of readable documents, including illustrations, accessible to anyone connected to the Internet. In the simplest of terms you could say that the Internet is a collection of library buildings connected by telephone and radio, and all the books and documents within the libraries constitute the World Wide Web.

Answer 5

Same thing expressed 2 different ways.

Answer 6

There the same thing!

Answer 7

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/WhatIs.html

Answer 8

none they are the samethang

Answer 9

none