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    Is the www (world wide web) and the internet the same thing, or are they different systems?

    Question #99788. Asked by tragic_flawed. (Sep 29 08 5:24 PM)


    zbeckabee

    		They are not the same thing. The Internet is to the World Wide Web as Europe is to France. One is the container, the other is an item within the container.

    The Internet is really a combination of several smaller digital "subnetworks" that share those cables and computers. The World Wide Web, or "Web" for short, is the single largest and most popular subnetwork on the Internet.

    http://netforbeginners.about.com/cs/technoglossary/f/Faq1.htm

    Sep 29 08, 5:41 PM
    albtucker

    		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. The World Wide Web was created in 1989 by British scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, and released in 1992.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_wide_web
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internet

    Sep 29 08, 10:36 PM

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