Internet And WWW
The "Internet" and "World Wide Web" Defined In recent years the
Internet
and World Wide Web (WWW) have become more and more popular as an
information
resource. Many people believe that the WWW is the same as the
Internet. This is
untrue. The Internet was designed in the late 60’s as a way
for a few military
computers to exchange research data. Today, the Internet
has evolved into a
loose association of thousands of networks and millions of
computers around the
world. These networks are connected together using
high-speed communication
lines. Primarily, the millions of computers that
access these networks use
slower speed data connections and telephone dial-up
connections. The WWW is
actually a program that runs on the Internet. It’s a
collection of interlinked
documents that work together using a special
computer language called a
protocol. This language allows millions of web
documents, or "pages", to be
accessed instantly with a click of a button.
These documents can include, text,
color, sounds, pictures and even movies.
The Internet is essentially the
hardware that connects all of the computers
together. It consists of special
computers that’s sole purpose is to move
data at high speeds between other
computers. The World Wide Web is a piece of
software that runs on the Internet.
It’s the actual information that is
available on the Internet. Essentially,
The Internet can function without
the Web, but the Web cannot function without
the Internet.