The internet vs. the web

Amoyah Allwood
Id# 24090035
Introduction to computer science
Prof. Michael reid

The words internet and the web has been used interchangeably for many years, however that is in fact the incorrect use of the words as the web is actually a portion of the internet. The internet was developed in the early 1960s and can be defined in many ways but is simply a large global communication network consisting of thousands of smaller networks or in other words a network of networks which allows users worldwide to communicate and share information.
The World Wide Web, also known as the web, or by the acronym- WWW, refers to a way of accessing information from the internet, which can easily be accessed by the use of software called an internet browser.
The World Wide Web and the internet may sometimes be confused with each other, however the web operates over the internet and is one of the ways that information can be distributed across the internet and is therefore a large portion and the most widely used part of the internet. The internet, unlike the World Wide Web is also used for the sending and receiving of e-mails.