Yes. The Internet is the inter-networking of comptuers. They were able to “talk” to each other long before it evolved into the Web as we know it today. We began calling part of the Internet the World Wide Web when we started adding islands of content douments that are hyperlinked together, and accessible through a browser.
The Internet is actually older than the Web, as my friends who have used Gopher back in the old days, will attest.
Why am I bringing it up? Because yesterday, give or take a bit, was the 15th anniversary of the birth of the World Wide Web, though most celebrations are using the terms Internet and World Wide Web interchangeably.
I love trivia. And if you’re ever on some game show and this question comes up, maybe you’ll remember me with a few tens of thousands of bucks?
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Resources : Internet:
An electronic network of computers that includes nearly every university, government, and research facility in the world. Also included are many commercial sites. It started with four interconnected computers in 1969 and was known as ARPAnet.
(Source is the Oracle FAQ)
A hypermedia-based system for browsing Internet sites. It is named the Web because it is made of many sites linked together; users can travel from one site to another by clicking on hyperlinks. Or “The World Wide Web is the universe of network-accessible information, an embodiment of human knowledge.” – Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web.
(Source is the University of Arizona Library).
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