The Internet & the World Wide Web (Cambridge (CIE) IGCSE Computer Science) : Revision Note
The Internet & the World Wide Web
What is the Internet?
Examiner Tips and Tricks
Cambridge IGCSE 0478 expects you to clearly differentiate between the Internet and the World Wide Web. This page is written to match the definitions and phrasing found in mark schemes.
The Internet is a global network of networks
The Internet is the most well-known Wide Area Network (WAN)
The Internet is the infrastructure used to provide connectivity to the World Wide Web
What is the World Wide Web?
The world wide web, or simply the web, is a collection of websites and web pages that are accessed using the internet
It was created in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee, who envisioned it as a way to share and access information on a global scale
The web consists of interconnected documents and multimedia files that are stored on web servers around the world
Web pages are accessed using a web browser, which communicates with web servers to retrieve and display the content
Examiner Tips and Tricks
Students often say the web is the Internet. It’s not, the Internet includes email, FTP, VoIP, and other services too, not just websites.
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