What Is The Difference Between The Internet And The Web?

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Although they are often confused with each other, the web and the internet are not the same. On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Word Wide Web, we show you what are the key differences between the internet and the web.

- Although the web is probably the largest service on the internet used by most people, it is not the entire Internet.

- Everything that makes up the web works through the internet, but there is much more on the internet than on the web.

- The Internet provides the basis for all kinds of applications, such as email, chat, and video conferencing; and also the web.

- Every time you send a message to someone on WhatsApp, iMessage or Facebook Messenger, you are using the Internet, but NOT the Web.

- The same goes for Telegram, Signal, Viber and most other messaging systems.

- It should be noted that messaging systems can have a web interface where you can read and write messages, but they also have non-web clients (for example, applications) and when they send / receive messages, they do so using non-web protocols.

- Every time you make a video call through Skype, Facetime, Zoom, WhatsApp, you are using the Internet, but NOT the web.

- Every time you send or receive an email message, you are using the Internet, but NOT the Web. Note that you may be using a web interface to read or write email, but actual sending and receiving is done using non-web protocols.

- By playing online using applications you install on your computer, you are using the internet, and probably not the web.

- When you use applications on your mobile phone, they are using the internet, and may or may not be using the web. Some applications on your mobile phone are natively written for Android or iOS and use protocols that are NOT for the web, but in many other cases, what you see as "applications" are basically small web browsers that open a website within the application". So this is a website that travels over the Internet, which is then viewed within an "application" on your mobile phone.

- When you store files in services like DropBox, Box.com, Microsoft OneDrive, etc., you are using the internet, and it is possible that you are using the web if you are using the web interface to upload files; but if you are using the native version integrated in Windows or Mac OS X, you are not using the web.

- When you use group calendar tools, many of them use non-web protocols; again, you are using the internet, but not necessarily the web.

- The web would not exist without internet; But, similarly, the internet would not have become the amazing and powerful tool it is without the web.

- The web needs the internet to function, but the internet needs the web to be useful.

- The web relies on the internet to deliver content for people, and the internet relies on the web to satisfy what people want.

* Data comes from the Internet Society.