The Difference Between The World Wide

Web And the Internet

People now talk about the Web more than they talk about
the Internet. The World Wide Web and the Internet are not the
same thing — the World Wide Web (which we call the Web
because we’re lazy typists) lives “on top of” the Internet. The
Internet’s network is at the core of the Web, and the Web is like an
attractive parasite that requires the Net for survival.
The Web is a bunch of “pages” of information connected to each
other around the globe. Each page can be a combination of text,
pictures, audio clips, video clips, animations, and other stuff.
(People add new types of other stuff every day.) What makes Web
pages interesting is that they contain hyperlinks, usually called
just links because the Net already has plenty of hype. Each link
points to another Web page, and, when you click a link, your
browser fetches the page the link connects to. (Your browser is the
program that shows you the Web.)
The other important characteristic of the Web is that you can search
it — all ten billion or so pages. For example, in about ten seconds,
you can get a list of Web pages that contain the phrase domestic
poultry or your own name or the name of a book you want to find
out about. You can follow links to see each page on the list to find
the information you want.
Each page your browser gets for you can have more links that take
you to other places. Pages can be linked to other pages anywhere
in the world so that when you’re on the Web, you can end up
looking at pages from Singapore to Calgary, or from Sydney to
Buenos Aires, all faster than you can say “Bob’s your uncle,”
usually. Most of the time, you’re only seconds away from any site,
anywhere in the world. This system of interlinked documents is
known as hypertext.

By Zara batool