Difference between the Web and the Internet

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From the definition in the Wikipedia: "The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that interchange data by packet switching using the standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP)."

Thus, the Internet is defined by the TPC/IP standards.

The Web, on the other hand, is defined in W3C's Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume I as follows: "The World Wide Web (WWW, or simply Web) is an information space in which the items of interest, referred to as resources, are identified by global identifiers called Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI)."

Thus, the Web is defined by other specifications. The first three specifications for Web technologies defined URLs, HTTP, and HTML.
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  • By those definitions the internet is the network i.e. the interconnected hardware. TCP/IP is the standard that was finally settled on as the standard protocol.

    W3C is the standards body that defines the content that is moved across the internet. Lots of stuff can be moved across the internet using various protocols i.e. FTP, UDP etc. TCP/IP is the protocol that is used by devices such as routers, computers, etc. on the internet to communicate

    The "web" is just slang that evolved to refer to the internet. If you visualize the interconnected internet it resembles a "web".
  • The web refers to that part of the internet you browse i.e. the www
    But that's just one part of the internet (internetwork) as a whole.The internet refers to all networks that make up the internet e.g http, email, telnet, gopher, veronica, ftp, p2p etc
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    Difference between the Web and the Internet

    From the definition in the Wikipedia: "The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that interchange data by packet switching using the standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP)." Thus, the Internet is defined by the TPC/IP standards.