Distinctions Between the Internet vs. World Wide Web

People interchangeably use the words "internet" and "web" when describing online activity, but are they actually the same? Read below to learn more

What is "the internet"

The internet is a large system of connecting networks which brings access and communication of information.The list below contains characteristics of the internet.

• Global
• A part of infrastructure
• Hardware-based
• Uses IP address

The internet is a globally connected network system facilitating worldwide communication and access to data resources through a huge collection of personal, public, business, academic and government networks. it’s governed by agencies just like Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (or IANA) that establish universal protocols. --from Geeksforgeeks.org

The web stands for the world wide web which is the system used to access the internet and which the information is stored. The list below contains characteristics of the web.

• Collection of information
• More software-oriented
• Subset of the internet
• The web uses HTTP

The World Wide Web, or just “the Web” for short, is a standardized system for accessing and navigating the Internet. It isn’t the only one (email and mobile apps, for instance, do not make use of the Web to connect you to the Internet), but it is by far the most common. --from From Pageonepower.com

Apps don't contain links to web pages, links are used internally on apps. Theres no HTML links to webpages. The list below contains characteristics of apps

• Absence of links
• Information provided exists separatly from webpages
• Doesn't use HTML links to communicate with the web

Something published only on the app is invisible to Google, and to browsers, until it is given a webpage. If you have downloaded a recipe app and search for a particular dish, you are searching within the app, not across the Web. Any given mobile app could use any of a number of coding languages other than HTML, because it doesn’t have to communicate with all the other websites in the world. --from Pageonepower.com