2007-12-03 04:55:28 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
There is a difference.
The Net - ie the Internet - is the basic network that connects computers around the world. This has been going for about 30 years and consists of a wide range of things - email, newsgroups, chat, bittorrent, etc.
The Web is just one of the things that runs over the Net. It's much newer than the overall Net - about 15 years old. In the last 10 years, it's become the most popular and visible service, so the words Net and Web have become almost interchangeable. But email, to take just one example, has nothing to do with the Web at all.
2007-12-03 18:57:29 · answer #1 · answered by Daniel R 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The web is literally like the concept behind all the adresses you go to on the net, the wwws etc as devised by Tim Berners-Lee and others.
The net is a wider communication concept behind that, including less standardised forms of connection.
The web is an area where some rules apply so all can hook up and find an address; but the web is now massively the biggest and fastest growing part so they have become synonymous because most of the net is the web.
2007-12-03 05:00:56 · answer #2 · answered by Teal R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say that the "world wide web" is the collection of information and pages that is ON the Internet.
The difference is very subtle, but the Internet is basically the physical infrastructure provided to link networks and computers together. The web is the all of the information that is on the Internet. The web could not exist without the Internet, but there could be an Internet without the web - in fact, in the early days, it was precisely that way.
2007-12-03 05:08:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most people use the terms interchangeably. There is a difference.
The internet is the infrastructure that connects all the networks together. WWW is a service that runs on the internet. E-mail is another service. Usenet is another service. WWW is the service that hosts web pages.
2007-12-03 05:03:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the net is anynet (like the fishing net), and the web is the spider net
:)
actually the net is used to describe any a punch of computers networked together where the the web is the assosiation where all the world computers are attached to
2007-12-03 05:00:50 · answer #5 · answered by mhnd_79 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Normally, the internet is the framework that supports email, FTP, web-browsing, etc. "Web" usually specifically means the world wide web (excluding other formats of the internet).
2007-12-03 04:58:56 · answer #6 · answered by guyster 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
HI....
A good collaboration by America and Britain!
The 'Net' ...Internet, was invented by an American....
The 'www' ... 'World Wide Web' ...'web', was invented by a Brit!
2007-12-04 05:13:53 · answer #7 · answered by Paul222@England 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
$ I easily have been using Hypertext Preprocessor/mysql for 4 years now and that i like it, i could have a server put in and working with Hypertext Preprocessor and mysql in 10 minutes, attempt that with asp. once you visit websites look on the extensions they use, maximum persons of websites i visit are Hypertext Preprocessor. Hypertext Preprocessor would be around for a protracted time.
2016-11-13 09:21:39 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a net is for catching fish, a web is for catching flies lol
2007-12-03 05:02:48 · answer #9 · answered by webs77 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
nothing...one is short for internet and the other short for world wide web. Same thing...
2007-12-03 04:58:20 · answer #10 · answered by angie c 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋