I think it's fair to say that most people have gotten accustomed to using
the terms internet and web interchangeably I mean it's all the same
thing right where you SN all your time into World of Warcraft and procure the
dankest of memes well actually although
the net and the web are pretty much married to each other they're
fundamentally different the term internet was actually coined as a short
word for inter networking which is what
the internet actually is I huge systems
of interconnected intranets or computer
networks from all over the globe as I explained in this video now the internet
supports lots of different Services just one of which is the worldwide web which
uses URLs or uniform resource locators
to locate stuff and hypertext languages
such as HTML that can be rendered by your internet browser as a web page
think of it this way all all of the websites you enjoy like YouTube lestech
tips.com and maybe some of the slightly more questionable stuff with their
onscreen text and Graphics are kind of like movie theaters that you have to
drive through the theaters are like the worldwide web but the road that you take
to get there that's the internet the web is essentially a virtual space where all
that sweet content is stored and accessed using a protocol called HTTP
but the internet is the thing that keeps it all connected and just like on a real
Highway you're not under any obligation to actually drive to a movie theater
unless your job is to serve popcorn to unruly teenagers at a Twilight release
there are plenty of services we access via the Internet that aren't part of the
web for instance if you use a non-browser-based email server through a
program like Outlook you're probably using protocols called SMTP or pop which
lie outside of the web another way we use the internet without using the web
is with file transfers schemes like bit
torrent peer-to-peer networking and FTP
don't use HTTP and bypass the web entirely even popular services like
Spotify various Game servers certain VoIP phones and many mobile apps
communicate using different protocols than the web these things are separated
from web traffic by connecting to servers using a different port than HTTP
which usually goes through port number 80 and although a lot of this stuff
might seem like it only became popular recently the web has been competing with
other internet services for a long time one of the most well-known of these was
called gopher which was something of a rival to the web in the late 1980s and
early 1990s like the web gopher could also be used to display documents via
the internet but the flexibility of HTML and development of graphical web
browsers like Mosaic made the web dominant by the mid 1990s and onward it
marched with web-based email providers like Hotmail and later Gmail mostly
replacing you know clients like Outlook you know what your grandma uses with
video streaming and browsers taking over from downloading the files from FTP
servers and even the old discussion service uset taking a back seat to the
ever popular Message Board making it easier for us to troll each other
without special software and don't forget Google wants to move even more
all but the most basic functionality of our computers even productivity software
like word processors to web apps with Chrome OS but here's an interesting fact
web use is actually slowing down even
with all the stuff we can do through a browser even things like rudimentary
video editing the rise of mobile and
console apps that while they use the internet don't use HTTP has meant that
web usage has been steadily decreasing for the last few years but even so the
web is an extremely powerful tool so don't worry it's not going anywhere
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