The Internet And World Wide Web Defined

Christopher L. Isaacs

1010 ? Technical Writing

Extended Definition

00 March 6th

The ?Internet? and ?World Wide Web? Defined

In recent years the Internet and World Wide Web (WWW) have become more and more popular as an information resource. Many people believe that the WWW is the same as the Internet. This is untrue.

The Internet was designed in the late 60?s as a way for a few military computers to exchange research data. Today, the Internet has evolved into a loose association of thousands of networks and millions of computers around the world.

These networks are connected together using high-speed communication lines. Primarily, the millions of computers that access these networks use slower speed data connections and telephone dial-up connections.

The WWW is actually a program that runs on the Internet. It?s a collection of interlinked documents that work together using a special computer language called a protocol. This language allows millions of web documents, or ?pages?, to be accessed instantly with a click of a button. These documents can include, text, color, sounds, pictures and even movies.

The Internet is essentially the hardware that connects all of the computers together. It consists of special computers that?s sole purpose is to move data at high speeds between other computers.

The World Wide Web is a piece of software that runs on the Internet. It?s the actual information that is available on the Internet. Essentially, The Internet can function without the Web, but the Web cannot function without the Internet.