Module 1.2 - .........and the World Wide Web

Even though I have been taught it before I still have to remind myself that the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW) are not the same thing.

The Internet is a network of hardware and sift ware and is the base for the WWW to work.

The WWW is an application just like email that makes use of the Internet.

A working WWW needs the following:

• A transfer protocol (HTTP)
• A web server
  
• Language to display information (HTML)
• A web browser
• Web pages

The WWW was the first many to many communication medium.