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Welcome to the Web -
Definitions
Let's quickly define what the Internet is and what the World Wide Web is. The Internet, created in the 1960s, is a worldwide network of computers. These computers "host" different types of services: e-mail, chat, newsgroups, ftp, telnet, and the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web, created in the 1990s, is the largest and fastest growing part of the Internet (more than 1,000,000,000 pages). Its main feature is that it allows for multimedia content (colors, pictures, movies, sounds, etc.) I like to think of the Internet/Web in terms of Cable TV. The Internet is the wires, cables, boxes, etc., connected to your TV. The Web would be the shows that you watch. Therefore, there could be an Internet without a Web, but there couldn't be a Web without the Internet. P.S. Nobody owns or controls the Internet or the Web. Additionally, there is no organized structure. There's no one place to start or finish and no one makes a catalog of all that's available. |