Many people around the world consider the terms “Internet” and “World Wide Web” as one and same thing however they are not so.
What is internet?
Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users around the world. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies.
Internet is a short form of the technical term internetwork, the result of interconnecting computer networks with special gateways or routers. The Internet is also often referred to as the Net.
What is World Wide Web?
World Wide Web, abbreviated as WWW or W3 and commonly known as the Web, is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them via hyperlinks.
Facts about Computers, Internet and World Wide Web:
1. The term World Wide Web was coined by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990.
2. Vinton Gray Cerf, Bob Kahn are the people credited of having developed Internet.
3. World’s first hard disk was developed by IBM in 1956.
4. First e-mail was sent by Ray Tomlinson in 1972
5. Douglas Engelbart invented the world’s first mouse.
6. While it took the radio 38 years and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.
7. First Computer Company to register domain name was “Digital Equipment Corporation”.
8. [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Delete] sequence was written by “David Bradley”
9. http://info.cern.ch was the first website developed in world.
10. WorldWideWeb was the world’s first web browser
11. The first ever search engine was ‘Archie’
12. PARAM is India’s first super computer developed
13. ENIAC was the world’s first computer developed
14. Intel Pentium processor was invented by Vinod Dham in 1993
What is internet?
Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users around the world. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies.
Internet is a short form of the technical term internetwork, the result of interconnecting computer networks with special gateways or routers. The Internet is also often referred to as the Net.
What is World Wide Web?
World Wide Web, abbreviated as WWW or W3 and commonly known as the Web, is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them via hyperlinks.
Facts about Computers, Internet and World Wide Web:
1. The term World Wide Web was coined by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990.
2. Vinton Gray Cerf, Bob Kahn are the people credited of having developed Internet.
3. World’s first hard disk was developed by IBM in 1956.
4. First e-mail was sent by Ray Tomlinson in 1972
5. Douglas Engelbart invented the world’s first mouse.
6. While it took the radio 38 years and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.
7. First Computer Company to register domain name was “Digital Equipment Corporation”.
8. [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Delete] sequence was written by “David Bradley”
9. http://info.cern.ch was the first website developed in world.
10. WorldWideWeb was the world’s first web browser
11. The first ever search engine was ‘Archie’
12. PARAM is India’s first super computer developed
13. ENIAC was the world’s first computer developed
14. Intel Pentium processor was invented by Vinod Dham in 1993