Internet and World Wide Web

The Internet’s roots are in the U.S. during the late 1960s.The Web was invented 20 years later by an Englishman working in Switzerland—though it had many predecessors.The Internet,linking your computer to other computers around the world, is a way of transporting content and The World Wide Web, or simply Web, is a way of accessing information over the medium of the Internet.It is an information-sharing model that is built on top of the Internet.The Web is just one of the ways that information can be disseminated over the Internet. The Internet, not the Web, is also used for e-mail, which relies on SMTP, Usenet news groups, instant messaging and FTP.