Many people mix up the words, Internet, and World Wide Web, but they are not the same thing. The Internet is a huge global network of computers. The World Wide Web is a software protocol designed to run on that network.
How the Internet Began
The Internet backbone began as a US military project called ARPANET in the late 1960s. It was designed to survive even a nuclear attack by avoiding a single point of failure. The main breakthrough, packet switching, allowed data to travel between computers in small packets that could take different routes.
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- Was the Internet built for science geeks or the general public? What about the World Wide Web?
- Did online communities exist before World Wide Web? If so, can you give some examples?
- Do you think the Web will ever go away? Will it be ever replaced by something better?