The Internet and the World Wide Web are not the same thing, although they are commonly thought to be synonymous.
The Internet is the interconnection of networked computers, where multiple personal or business computers for instance are all interlinked via cables and/or wireless signals like roads and streets connect houses. It’s a massive network of networks that connects hundreds of millions of computers together all around the world. Any computer can communicate with any other computer as long as they are connected to the Internet. Information travels over the Internet using many different languages called protocols.
The World Wide Web is used to access information over the Internet. It was created by Tim Berners-Lee as a way to share information over multiple computers connected together with the use of the Internet. This is done through digital HTML pages called websites. Web browsers (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari etc.) are free computer software, which are used to connect you to web pages using the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
The Web isn’t the only way to access information over the Internet as there are many other protocols that allow for other things such as the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) which sends information in file form.
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