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I'm aware. They shouldn't be used interchangeably.

• vxNsr 13y ago
  Could you expand on that, I've heard people say this but I've never heard a good reason for why, they just assumed I understood it intuitively, when it wasn't too clear at all.
  • SSLy 13y ago
    Well, pardon my analogy: Internet is like roads network - infrastructure which you use to run... WWW, which is type of traffic on road eg. cars
  • johnplaxton 13y ago
    The internet is the world-wide network of computers. The web is HTTP and HTML and other such technologies, that may or may not run on top of the internet, but when they do they form the world-wide-web or web for short. When people talk about clothes on the web, it's nonsense because they probably don't run HTTP.
  • aaronblohowiak 13y ago
    The web is the network of hypermedia documents, the internet is the network of computer networks. A "web page" is a node in the graph of the web. A "computer" is a node in the graph of the internet. For practical purposes, the "internet" is the things that link together using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol and the "web" is things that link together using URIs. The web is content, the net is machinery. When you are on Xbox and playing against someone else, you are playing over the internet but you are not playing over the web. Similarly, you can download web pages but you cannot download the internet.