The Internet Vs The Web

 Jocelyn Crum 

FMX210

September 1, 2020

Prof. Roundtree

The Internet Vs The Web

The internet is described as the global system of interconnected computer networks that communicate through networks and devices. According to LiveScience no single person invented the Internet, instead it was “the result of years of collaboration among computer scientists, researchers and engineers.”  The creation of one of the most essential aspects of our lives today started as far back as the 1930s. Belgian information expert Paul Otlet was the first to come up with the ideas that resemble those behind the Internet. He theorized a “Radiated Library” that could “connect TV watchers to encyclopedic knowledge through telephone signals.” The modern day Internet has its roots in the early 1960’s. With the Cold War in full swing, J.C.R. Licklider, a computer scientist formulated ideas about global networking in a series of memos, he described as “Intergalactic Computer Network”. These ideas landed Licklider a job as director of the U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. They created a time-sharing network of computers known as ARPANET, the predecessor to the Internet. Compared to today the use of the Internet during its first started years was much more limited. Only used for military purposes and then eventually extended to help the communication among scientists, the Internet did not become accessible to the public until 1983. Today the Internet is used for a variety of things including, shopping, communication, entertainment, business, school, and more.

The World Wide Web is an information system where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators or URLs. Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the WWW in 1989, he wrote the first web browser in 1990 while employed at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland. It was released to other research institutions starting in January 1991 and finally released to the general public in August. “The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world”, according to CERN. Compared to today, the web is used to access limitless amounts of information, keep in touch with others, and gives access to millions of sites. 

The Internet and WWW are very closely linked, but very different systems. “The internet is a huge network of computers all connected together. The world wide web is a collection of webpages found on this network of computers” The Internet is the thing that supports the Web. It cannot exist without the Internet. The Internet allows different computers around the world to talk to one another, while the Web is a system of web pages and sites that use the Internet to pass files across. The first web page went live on August 6, 1991, and was created by Tim Berners-Lee. It is still up and the URL is The World Wide Web project - CERN.

Works Cited 

“CERN Accelerating Science.” CERN, home.cern/science/computing/birth-web#:~:text=Tim%20Berners%2DLee%2C%20a%20British,and%20institutes%20around%20the%20world.&text=These%20actions%20allowed%20the%20web%20to%20flourish.

“History of the Internet.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 26 Aug. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet.

“History of the Web.” World Wide Web Foundation, webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/.

Palermo, Elizabeth. “Who Invented the Internet?” LiveScience, Purch, 15 Jan. 2014, www.livescience.com/42604-who-invented-the-internet.html.

“What Is the Internet.” IGI Global, www.igi-global.com/dictionary/internet/15369.

“World Wide Web.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 29 Aug. 2020, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web.


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