The Difference Between the Internet and World Wide Web

What is The Internet? The Internet is a massive network of networks, a networking infrastructure. It connects millions of computers together globally, forming a network in which any computer can communicate with any other computer as long as they are both connected to the Internet. Information that travels over the Internet does so via a variety of languages known as protocols. What is The Web (World Wide Web)? The World Wide Web, or simply Web, is a way of accessing information over the medium of the Internet. It is an information-sharing model that is built on top of the Internet. The Web uses the HTTP protocol, only one of the languages spoken over the Internet, to transmit data. Web services, which use HTTP to allow applications to communicate in order to exchange business logic, use the the Web to share information. The Web also utilizes browsers, such as Internet Explorer or Firefox, to access Web documents called Web pages that are linked to each other viahyperlinks. Web documents also contain graphics, sounds, text and video.
1: The Internet is a Big Collection of Computers and Cables. The Internet is named for "interconnection of computer networks". It is a massive hardware combination of millions of personal, business, and governmental computers, all connected like roads and highways. The Internet started in the 1960's under the original name "ARPAnet". ARPAnet was originally an experiment in how the US military could maintain communications in case of a possible nuclear strike. With time, ARPAnet became a civilian experiment, connecting university mainframe computers for academic purposes. As personal computers became more mainstream in the 1980's and 1990's, the Internet grew exponentially as more users plugged their computers into the massive network. Today, the Internet has grown into a public spiderweb of millions of personal, government, and commercial computers, all connected by cables and by wireless signals. No single person owns the Internet. No single government has authority over its operations. Some technical rules and hardware/software standards enforce how people plug into the Internet, but for the most part, the Internet is a free and open broadcast medium of hardware networking.

2: The Web Is a Big Collection of HTML Pages on the Internet. The World Wide Web, or "Web" for short, is that large software subset of the Internet dedicated to broadcasting HTML pages. The Web is viewed by using free software called web browsers. Born in 1989, the Web is based on hypertext transfer protocol, the language which allows you and me to "jump" (hyperlink) to any other public web page. There are over 40 billion public web pages on the Web today.

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Available web browsers range in features from minimal, text-based user interfaces with bare-bones support for HTML to rich user interfaces supporting a wide variety of file formats and protocols. Browsers

which include additional components to support e-mail, Usenet news, and Internet Relay Chat (IRC), are [10][11][12] sometimes referred to as "Internet suites" rather than merely "web browsers". All major web browsers allow the user to open multiple information resources at the same time, either in different browser windows or in different tabs of the same window. Major browsers also include pop-up [13][14][15][16] blockers to prevent unwanted windows from "popping up" without the user's consent. Most web browsers can display a list of web pages that the user has bookmarked so that the user can quickly return to them. Bookmarks are also called "Favorites" in Internet Explorer. In addition, all major web browsers have some form of built-in web feed aggregator. In Firefox, web feeds are formatted as "live bookmarks" and behave like a folder of bookmarks corresponding to recent entries in the [17] feed. In Opera, a more traditional feed reader is included which stores and displays the contents of the [18] feed. Furthermore, most browsers can be extended via plug-ins, downloadable components that provide additional features Browser Functions The general browser functions that are available on the toolbar are shown below. The Address / Location field. This shows the address of the page you are accessing. This takes you to the previous screen in your history list. This takes you to the next screen in your history list, this button is disabled unless you have used the back button. This stops the page from loading any more and displays only the text and images that have already downloaded. The Refresh / Reload button. This button can be used to redisplay any screen again. Sometimes screens do not load in properly of fail to load the first time, this is a network/Internet problem not one of the system. The Print button. It is not always best to use this button, but rather use Print from the File menu. See the section on printing for more information. The Home button takes you to your home page. You can choose where this is by choosing Internet Options from the Tools menu in Internet Explorer or Preferences from the Edit menu in Netscape. Favorites. You can add and organize web sites you have visited in Internet Explorer.

What are the primary functions of web browser ?

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The primary function of a web browser is to give you access to the world wide web. Note that there is a difference between the world wide web and the internet. Put simply the world wide web is the collection of documents, images that you commonly view when surfing. The Internet is the network of computers connected to each other - much more goes on than just web browsing - such as email, file to file transfer and newsgroups.

As stated the number one function of a web browser is to give users access to the world wide web, the browser understands the programming langauges used to write web pages and convert them to readable and viewable documents. However, as the internet has developed the web browsers have also enhanced their capabilities to take advantage of the changing enviroment - you are now able to play games through the browser, use chat rooms and use more interactive websites. In this way the Web Browser purpose has extened to cover other aspects of the Internet.