#web vs internet

Internet. The web. World Wide Web. The net. Interwebs. Tinternet

Just a few of the names and terms used frequently and interchangeably by myself and those around me, yet they’re actually not all the same (and some may be totally made up…)

Someone once explained to me that the internet is the information and data, and the web is the means by which it is all connected. That seems perfectly logical to me. That, as it turns out, is incorrect. But not too far off.  The Internet is actually the infrastructure,  the exchanges back and forth. Information travels via the internet, in a variety of languages called ‘protocols’. The (World Wide) Web is the interface, the software, what we users see and interact with. The web is a system built on top of the internet – and is not the only thing that uses the internet.