ABSTRACT
HOW THE WEB WORKS So what is this thing we call “the Web”? Perhaps the first thing to understand is that the World Wide Web (WWW) and the Internet are not the same thing, even if many people use the terms synonymously. The Web is a part of the Internet, usually the part we use through a web browser by entering an address beginning “https://.” So what’s the Internet? In his book, Weaving the Web, Tim Berners-Lee,1 the inventor of the WWW, defines the Internet as a “global network of networks through which computers communicate by sending information in packets. Each network consists of computers connected by cables or wireless links.” These computers communicate using a variety of network protocols (rules for communicating). The Internet encompass a wide variety of technologies, including email, the Web, File Transfer Protocol (FTP), and many others.
