Internet v. World Wide Web
The internet was created by a large group of scientist in the early 1960s. J.C.R Licklider is credited with the idea of an “Intergalactic Network” of computers. This network was soon then catapulted into the internet we all know today. There was a lot of other scientists that made advancements in between Likelider and now, but he was one of the very firsts to come up with idea of communication between computers. Originally it was used for basic transferring of information, the internet does that now too, but it now is the infrastructure that holds up the World Wide Web.
The World Wide Web is the collection of global information that is accessed through the internet. Tim Berners- Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. In an effort to make sharing information from computer to computer more user friendly, he invented www. In the beginning it was used just to just that, but it quickly began to take off. Berners- Lee had created something that was completely free and anyone who had access to a computer could use. By giving up his control over the web, he is quoted to have said that is why it really grew so exponentially.
The internet and WWW are different, but they work together. I think of the internet as a grocery store, and the WWW as the groceries. The internet is the catalyst for the World Wide Web. They work side by side. The first website was created by Tim Berners- Lee, it is still up and the url is: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
Works cited:
https://www.businessinsider.com/flashback-this-is-what-the-first-website-ever-looked-like-2011-6
https://webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/
https://www.history.com/news/who-invented-the-internet
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