Saturday, February 18, 2012

World Wide Web vs Internet


World Wide Web vs Internet
 The difference is that WorldWideWeb is a conection between web browsers, and internet is a conection between millions of computers.


The web is one of the ways that information can be distibuted over the internet.
The internet is also used for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol that  is an internet standard for e-mail, for serching information, for searching news, communication, and data transfer. So, the web is a great part of the internet but is not the same. 


Internet protocol: The internet protocol is is the primary network protocol used on the Internet,it is used to postpone datagrams across and internetwork using the Internet Protocol Suite.


Http/https: HTTP means Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, it is the set of rules for transfering some files like: grafics, sounds, images, videos, music, etc; in the world wide web. Hypertext means that the files can contain. Https means Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure it means that is the same than Hypertext Transfer Protocol but the secure version. If a page is https it means that the internet web page is secure.




Web browser: A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information  on the World Wide Web. The web browsers can also be used to access information provided by web servers in private networks or in the file system. There are a lot of web browsers, the principal are are Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari. There are a lot of other web browsers like  Flock, TheWorld, Maxthon, SeaMonkey, and more. Tim berners lee designed and built the first web browser called WorldWideWeb




Html: It is HyperText Markup Language, is the main markup language for web pages. Its elements are the basic building-blocks of web pages.  It consists of tags that are short codes typed into a text-file. Then it is saved as a html file, and it is view through a web browser  This browser translates the text into a visible form. 

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