>>106550056 (OP)
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as the Internet, is in fact, the World Wide Web, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, the Web. The Internet is not the Web unto itself, but rather a vast network infrastructure made useful by higher-level protocols, services, and applications such as HTTP, DNS, and TCP/IP, which together comprise the environment in which the Web can exist.
Many computer users access a modified portion of the Internet every day without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the most widely visible part of the Internet — the Web — has come to be mistaken for the whole thing, and many of its users are not aware that the Internet also carries email, file transfers, streaming, chat, VPN tunnels, VoIP, and countless other protocols besides web pages.
There really is an Internet, and these people are using it, but it is far more than the websites they browse. The Web is simply one application layer service: the system of interconnected documents accessible via HTTP. It is an essential part of modern online life, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of the underlying Internet infrastructure. The Web is normally used in combination with the Internet: the whole experience is basically the Internet with the Web added, or Internet/Web. All the so-called “Internet” people think of when they mean websites are really just the Web riding atop the Internet!
