The Internet vs The Web
These are two terms that we use on a daily basis without making much difference between them. However, there is a difference...
Let's review a bit of history.
Years ago during the cold war build up, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) that was created in the USA in 1958 led to a creation of a department called the Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) which started the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) that linked the radar systems of the USA together. In that time, there was a lot of research going on in the world and the University of California in Los Angeles got the ARPANET. This was a relatively smaller version of the internet in 1969. Due to its necessity, the Internet was developed tremendously to be what it is today.
The web however was invented by sir Berners Lee. Tim Berners envisioned the web as an elaborate information management system. Alongside Robert Calliau, he published a formal proposal for the World Wide web on November 12 of 1990. By December 1990, Berners Lee had built all the necessary tools for a functional Web. These included the first web browser and first web pages which were majorly about the project. He posted a short summary of the www project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup on 6th august of 1991 and this marked the introduction of the web as a publicly available service on the internet.
So now... Can you see what is the difference?
The Internet is a connection of interconnected computers. This is a series of millions and millions of devices all connected together and can communicate with each other thus the interconnected networks.
The web is a collection of digital pages that are viewable over the internet using a web browser. These web pages contain lots of content which is mostly dynamic. And as you can imagine the nature of the wide world web has turned it to be the most vast collection of human knowledge ever, and of course the most vast collection of fake news...
Anyway, this is something basic but important to understand if we want to enter this world that rules us today.