I somehow know that they are all a part of a whole, but can somebody define which is which and what does what?
What is the difference of internet, internet explorer and world wide web?
I somehow know that they are all a part of a whole, but can somebody define which is which and what does what?
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September 25th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Okay, let’s take them one by one:
Internet: A global network of computers based on the philosophy of connecting with anyone willing to make a similar effort to connect to you.
World Wide Web: A network of computers with Internet connectivity that provides access to documents of all kinds, primarily hypertext.
Web Browser: A program that speaks a variety of protocols, including at least HTTP (hypertext transport protocol) and which provides access to the World Wide Web.
Internet Explorer: A web browser made by Microsoft for its Windows series of operating systems.
Internet Explorer is a web browser, but so are Firefox and Safari.
September 28th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
I believe the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW) is the same thing: a global network of computers utilised to share date – your computer is part of the Internet when it connects.
Internet Explorer is one of the few good web browsers, among the likes of Mozilla Firefox and Opera. A browser is used to retrieve information from other computers and display it on yours.
October 1st, 2009 at 1:31 am
Boy you have some reading to do.
The internet is basically a massive network of computers linked together. Starting from scratch, a link between 2 or more computers is called a network — we have a few terms for these networks ranging from LAN (local area network) and WAN (wide area network). A LAN is your typical home or office setup — computers ranging from a few to a few dozen PC’s, printers and devices all linked up together. A WAN covers a much larger area — something like a city network, and may include web servers, home computers, and all sorts of other server farms and telecommunication equipment.
The internet, is the entire collective of LANS and WANS all over the world inter-connected together, via several ways (undersea cable, satellites, microwave etc.)
However, the Internet and the World Wide Web are not one and the same. The Internet is a global data communications system. It is a hardware and software infrastructure that provides connectivity between computers. In contrast, the Web is one of the services communicated via the Internet. It is a collection of interconnected documents and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs.
The Web Browser is just a program that you run on your computer that renders (displays) web pages. Basically, it is an interface that lets you access pages of information stored on web servers over the web.
Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, even the Safari web browser on the iPhone are considered Web browsers.
October 4th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Internet:-The Internet is at its most basic definition an electronic communications network. It is the structure on which the World Wide Web is based. Think of the Internet as a bus, and the Web as the people within the bus….grumpy passengers, screaming babies, and people talking too loud (actually, that’s a pretty good representation of a lot of the Web!).
World Wide Web:-The World Wide Web is a part of the Internet “designed to allow easier navigation through the use of graphical user interfaces and hypertext links between different addresses”The World Wide Web was created in 1992 by Tim Berners-Lee, and continues to change and expand rapidly. The Web is the user part of the Internet, based on TCP/IP protocol technology to swap information back and forth
Internet explorer:-Formerly called Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE), Internet Explorer (IE) is the name of Microsoft’s browser that enables you to view Web pages on the Internet using a graphical interface. Internet Explorer was first introduced in 1995 and it is the most popular browser used today. The latest official release, Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) was made available for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Vista. This version included the popular tabbed browsing option, a feature first used by Mozilla in 2001, a new feed reader, and other features. The beta version of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) was released in early 2008. Internet Explorer supports Java and JavaScript and also supports ActiveX.