What is the difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web?

Question

Are they just two different terms for the same thing, or do they have different meanings?

Don't mind me; I'm computer illiterate.

Answer 1

they are the same, but www stands better for web addresses cause its sorter. I prefer the name World Wide Web, it sounds more ' official' and lesh 'selfish', more ' international'. If you want to use the names in university reports etc, choose to use World Wide Web, it's a bit more 'upper class'.  

Answer 2

Yes, they are the same thing.

Answer 3

They are the same.  "Internet" is just easier to say than "World Wide Web"

By the way, your name is almost identical to that of the top contributer in this Category.  I had to do a double take to see if you were putting us on. ; )

Answer 4

Ha, ha!  I'm going to go against the flow and say they're different!!

Most people use them interchangably but I remember that at uni, one of our lecturers tried to drum it into our heads that they were actually different.

Now if I remember correctly, the difference is this:

We have an INTERconnected NETwork of computers - you see where the word internet came from.

One of the things we use this internet for is the World Wide Web which is only the www. type things - web pages which can have text, pictures, video and sound.

These other things include, instant messaging, voip, vpn, ftp and anything else you can think of that you wouldn't use www. for but you would use a computer hooked up to the internet.

Hey, look at this!  Wiki says this so I can't be too far wrong.  ;-D

WORLD WIDE WEB:

"The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a Web browser, a user views Web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigates between them using hyperlinks."

INTERNET

"The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that interchange data by packet switching using the standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, and other technologies.

"The Internet carries various information resources and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer and file sharing, online gaming, and the inter-linked hypertext documents and other resources of the World Wide Web (WWW)."

And darn!  I forgot email - I always do!  LOL.

Answer 5

Two different names for the same thing.