The Internet & the World Wide Web (Cambridge (CIE) O Level Computer Science)

The Internet & the World Wide Web

What is the Internet?

• The Internet is a global network of networks

• The Internet is the most well-known Wide Area Network (WAN)

• The Internet is the infrastructure used to provide connectivity to the World Wide Web

What is the World Wide Web?

• The world wide web, or simply the web, is a collection of websites and web pages that are accessed using the internet

• It was created in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee, who envisioned it as a way to share and access information on a global scale

• The web consists of interconnected documents and multimedia files that are stored on web servers around the world

• Web pages are accessed using a web browser, which communicates with web servers to retrieve and display the content