Is there an actual difference between the WWW and the Internet? (found it) Had to refresh a bit

[kantonburg]

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the Internet the "text" version and the WWW the "graphical" version?

Link would be helpful.

Thanks

 

[StageLeft]

I thought the WWW was the websites we use, whereas the Internet included them as well as everything else such as file transfers, and all other sorts of communication.

 

"The Internet" is a catch all name for the TCP/IP based internetwork of computer systems which grew out of Arpanet.

WWW is just one component of "The Internet." The World Wide Web is just a collection of hyperlinked documents housed on "web servers."

 

[BA]

somebody's never used gopher...

 

[Stark]

I thought the internet was the actual backbone that data travels on, while www was the naming system that let's people easily access that data (instead of having to remember number addresses).

 

[kantonburg]

ah ha

http://www.mcnetec.com/faq/whatsthe.html

 

[bigvince]

read dwells post he is right


the internet is the collection of publicly accsesable TCP/IP networks (aka the internet) the world wide web is the network of hyperlinked webpages but is only a component of the inernet as a whole.


edit

stark what you are refering to is DNS (the system for corelating number adresses to domain names)

 

[vi edit]

WWW is part of the internet

Internet is composed of:
WWW
Email
Telnet
FTP
and newsgroups

 

[Windogg]

Any still user Gopher? Anyone remember SLIP?

Windogg

 

[vi edit]

"Anyone remember SLIP"
HA! Still use it everyday at work to dial onto an AS/400 system