[My2Cents]

Not the internet - he invented the World Wide Web

Pardon my ignorance, but what's the difference?

[pau1f0rd]

Pardon my ignorance, but what's the difference?

The internet is the name of the network itself. The web is just one thing that runs on the internet.

[saquin]

Think of the Web as a sort of overlay on the Internet. The Internet is the system that links computers to communicate with each other, and was invented by the US military in the 60s (ARPANET). Before the World Wide Web, internet communication was through text-based email programs and things like Gopher (anyone else remember Gopher?) The Web was the beginning of http (hypertext) that allowed for the creation of graphical web pages that link to each other through hyperlinks. The Web is what most people today think of today when they think of the "Internet".

[luckystarmom]

Well, the internet is a set of computers that were connected many years ago. When I was in college over 20 years ago, most universities were connected via the internet.

To access other computers you had to use FTP, File Transfer Protocol. It was very tedius, and mostly only computer geeks (like myself) did this.

It wasn't until the web browsers were created and made accessing the internet easy for non-computer geeks.