The Internet & the World Wide Web (Cambridge International IGCSE Computer Science)

Spec point — 5.1.1 · "1 Understand the difference between the internet and the world wide web "

The Internet & the World Wide Web

What is the Internet?

Exam Hint Cambridge IGCSE 0478 expects you to clearly differentiate between the Internet and the World Wide Web. This page is written to match the definitions and phrasing found in mark schemes.

• 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

Exam Hint Students often say the web is the Internet. It’s not, the Internet includes email, FTP, VoIP, and other services too, not just websites.