Digital Media Blog: The World Wide Web and the Internet

The World Wide Web and the Internet

What is the Internet? The internet is a wider network that allows computer networks around the world run by companies, governments, universities, and other organizations to talk to one another. This allows

for digital information to travel around the world. The internet was created by Tim Berners-Lee, a British

computer scientist. By October of 1990 Tim had written the three fundamental technologies that remain the

foundation of today’s web. He created the internet because he noticed there was difficulty trying to share

information which was what it was originally used for, to be able to share information easier among networks. Today the internet

is used for a vast variety of things, entertainment, communication, information, etc.

What is the World Wide Web? Commonly referred to as WWW, W3, or the Web, the World Wide Web is an interconnected system

of public web pages accessible through the Internet. Tim Berners-Lee proposed the architecture of what became known as the World Wide Web. He created the

first web server, web browser and webpage on his computer at the CERN physics research lab in 1990. He also founded the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) to standardize and develop the Web further. The World Wide Web is the primary tool billions of people use to interact on the Internet.

Are the Internet and the World Wide Web the same thing?

Although the Internet and the World Wide Web are very similar, they are not the same concept.

The Web is not the same as the Internet: the Web is one of many applications built on top of the Internet.

The World Wide Web are the pages you see when you're at a device and you're online. But the internet is

the network of connected computers that the web works on, as well as what emails and files travel across.

The World Wide Web is just one common area for information exchange, facilitated by the Internet. You

connect to this Internet to access the Web, but the Internet is just the connection between countless,

separate servers, computers, and devices. The Web is the medium we use to access, edit, discover, and

share information (through links) according to a standard language: HTML.

The first web page! The first web page went live on August 6, 1991 and was made by Tim Berners-Lee. The first web page address was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.