Many people thinks that the terms Internet and World Wide Web(WWW) are similar, but in fact two terms are not synonymous. Both are different things but related to each other.
What is The Internet?
The Internet can be defined as the network of networks which connects millions of computers together globally in which one computer can communicate with another computer on network as lang as both are connected to the Internet.
Information can be exchanged on the Internet via various languages known as protocols present.
Internet is decentralized which is one of the main reason that each computer on the Internet network is independent.
There are more than 3,700,000,000 Internet users in the World.
What is The World Wide Web?
The World Wide Web or simply web, can be defined as a way of accessing information over the Internet.
It can also be defined as the information-sharing model which is built on top of the Internet.
The World Wide Web or simply web, uses the HTTP protocol which is one of the languages spoken over the Internet to transmit the data between two computers connected to each other via Internet network.
The web uses the browsers such as Mozilla or Firefox to access the web pages that are linked to each other via hyperlinks.
There are more than 1,275,000,000 websites present on the Internet.
The World Wide Web or web is subportion of the Internet.
Like web, Email which uses the SMTP, also uses the Internet for messaging.
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