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Usage Entry 1473 / 1605 60-second read

Internet vs. Web

The global network of computers versus the system of linked pages on top of it.

The comparisoni

✗ Wrong

The internet was invented by Tim Berners-Lee.

✓ Correct

The WEB was invented by Tim Berners-Lee (1989). The INTERNET (the network) predates it — ARPANET ran since the 1960s. The web runs on top of the internet.

The ruleii

INTERNET = network. WEB = pages.

INTERNET: the global network of connected computers (since the 1960s). WEB (World Wide Web): the system of HTTP-linked pages that runs on top (since 1989). Email, FTP, BitTorrent are also on the internet but not on the web.

Memory aidiii

Remember it like this

The web is one app of the internet.

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