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What is the Internet?The Internet is a network of networks, linking computers to computers sharing the TCP/IP protocols. 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. It is a slight misstatement to say a "document was found on the Internet." It would be more correct to say it was found through or using the Internet. What it was found in (or on) is one of the computers linked to the Internet. [top]
What is the World Wide Web?The WWW incorporates all of the Internet services above and much more. You can retrieve documents, view images, animation, and video, listen to sound files, speak and hear voice, and view programs that run on practically any software in the world, providing your computer has the hardware and software to do these things.
When you log onto the Internet using Netscape or Microsoft's Internet Explorer or some other browser, you are
viewing documents on the World Wide Web. The current foundation on which the WWW functions is the programming language
called HTML. It is HTML and other programming imbedded within HTML that make possible Hypertext. Hypertext is the ability
to have web pages containing links, which are areas in a page or buttons or graphics on which you can click your mouse button to
retrieve another document into your computer. This "clickability" using Hypertext links is the feature which is unique and
revolutionary about the Web.
What is the relationship between the Internet and the WWW?So to sum it all up the Internet is the back bone of the World Wide Web because that is what allows one to connect and communicate to the thousands of computers around the world that are networked together. So once you connect using Netscape or Internet Explorer it is then possible to retrieve documents, animations video, files and all sorts of data which is all iincorporated to create the World Wide Web. So basically thr Internet is the connection and the hosting while the WWW is what holds all the 'information' and 'data.' [top]
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