The Internet is a global network of billions of computers and other electronic devices, which make it possible to access information and communicate with others. The U.S. Department of Defense helped to establish the earliest version the internet in 1958 when it founded the Advanced Research Projects Agency. ARPA funded multiple mainframe computers for different university departments and institutes which held research contracts from the agency. These machines were not compatible with each other, so the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was created, which enabled valuable resources to be shared. Accessing the Internet was restricted to those working in the institutions which held research contracts from ARPA. Today, people use the Internet to communicate, to get information, to be entertained, to shop, to work, and even to attend school.
The World Wide Web is a collection of different websites that can be accessed through the Internet. The Web was created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 while he was an employee at a well-known European research organization; CERN. The purpose of this creation was to be used as a place to store and share documents across a worldwide network, which quickly grew into a network used for sharing any type of information. Today, people often use popular websites such as Facebook, Youtube, Google, Twitch, Netflix, Spotify and various online shopping stores.
The internet forms the foundation for the web to function. The internet is the core of the web, and is the network that supports the web. The web includes websites and pages that contain the content that users interact with. “Overall, the web contains about 10 billion individual web pages, all of which are supported and made accessible through the internet’s underlying network” (UAB School of Business, “What’s the Difference?”). The Internet and the World Wide Web work side by side. The first website was created by Berners-Lee on August 6th, 1991, and is still active as of today. He created this website with the intentions of informing the world how to use the World Wide Web. The url is http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html, which is pictured below.
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