the+world+wide+web+and+the+internet

= What Is The Internet? = ==== The Internet is at its most basic definition an electronic communications network. It is the structure on which the World Wide Web is based. Think of the Internet as a bus, and the Web as the people within the bus....grumpy passengers, screaming babies, and people talking too loud (actually, that's a pretty good representation of a lot of the Web!). ====

= = = What Is The Internet? = ==== The Internet is at its most basic definition an electronic communications network. It is the structure on which the World Wide Web is based. Think of the Internet as a bus, and the Web as the people within the bus....grumpy passengers, screaming babies, and people talking too loud (actually, that's a pretty good representation of a lot of the Web!). ==== ==== The World Wide Web was created in 1992 by Tim Berners-Lee, and continues to change and expand rapidly. The Web is the user part of the Internet, based on TCP/IP protocol technology to swap information back and forth. People use the Web to communicate, access information, for business, and recreational purposes ==== 

The Web and the Internet - Not The Same Thing
==== The Internet and the Web work together, but they are not the same thing. Think of the bus analogy again - the Internet provides the structure, and the Web provides the dynamic networks that we use via a variety of different methodologies and protocols. ====