VERITAS UNIVERSITY, ABUJA
(THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA)
USE OF LIBRARY, STUDY SKILLS AND ICT
GES 121
ASSIGNMENT:
DEFINE INTERNET AND WWW (WORLD WIDE WEB) WITH RELEVANT EXAMPLES.
WHAT ARE THEIR DIFFERENCES AND SIMILIARITIES?
BY:
UZOECHI JULIET UCHECHI
VUG/ACC/17/1890
ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT
SUBMITTED ON:
21ST MARCH, 2018
ANSWERS
Internet can be defined as the global system of interconnected computer networks, that use the internet protocol suites (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide. Sometimes called “the Net”, it is a global wide area network that connects computer systems across the world.
Examples of internet:
This can be described as the Internet of Things which refers to the rapidly growing network of connected objects that are able to collect and exchange data through embedded sensors. These include; wearables, industrial internet, service industries, appliances, smart health, smart homes and smart spaces.
WWW is an abbreviation for World Wide Web. It is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and can be accessed via the internet. The www is a subset of the internet and consists of pages that can be accessed using a web browser.
Examples of WWW:
Some examples of world wide web are:
http://www.cc.ukans.eduhttp://www.verbumnetworks.net/elibraryhttp://www.njit.eduThe differences and similarities between the internet and world wide web include the following:
DIFFERENCES:
The internet is a network of computer devices, routers and server across the globe. While the world wide web is like a software running on the internet used to access websites and services with the help of various protocols.
The internet is independent of the world wide web, whereas, the world wide web is dependent on the internet to work.
There are variety of ways in which the internet can be accessed unlike the web which can only be accessed via the Web browsers like Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.
The information which travels through the internet is being transmitted using variety of languages known as protocols, whereas, the web uses only one of the languages spoken over the internet, i.e., the HTTP protocol, to transmit data.
The internet is a global network which supports a wide variety of interactions and communications between its devices, whereas, the world wide web is a subset of these interactions and supports websites and URIs.
The name of the first version of internet was APRANET while that of world wide web is NSFnet.
SIMILARITIES:
Both the internet and the world wide web have to make use of protocol which allows communication within them.
They both make use of the HTTP protocol.
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