A lot of people use the
terms interchangeably, but the internet is larger than the web. The web uses
the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), while other components of the internet
use different protocols, such as UDP (user-defined protocol), FTP (file
transfer protocol) SMTP (simple mail transfer protocol), and NNTP (netnews
transfer protocol). These are all terms that were coined in the 1980s.
The Web is the acronym of
World Wide Web. It is an information system on the Internet that allows
documents to be connected to other documents by hypertext links, enabling the
user to search for information by moving from one document to another.
It’s a collection of web
sites (data and software hosted on servers and provided with a relatively
friendly front end) that allow easy access. You need to have Internet access
of course, but that’s the basics. It’s complex largely due to the enormous and
growing number of sites available and the impressive variety of subjects
available to anyone interested. The publication is easy enough that anyone can do
it and the restrictions are few. Some countries impose more restrictions than
others of course.