“The internet was invented by Tim Berners-Lee.”
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
“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
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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.