By James Page
This page is about the Internet and how everything on it works!
It may seem like all you had to do to get here is type in a URL and wait about 1 second for this webpage to appear, but it's a lot more detailed then that, and i'm about to show you how.
You(the user) accessed your browser from your device and went to the search bar. You searched on the World Wide Web something similar to "9csi-jpage" and waited for your suggestions to appear (unless someone shared the link with you). You might've searched for a while but eventually you would've found this webpage. You clicked on the URL and it sent you to the home page. From then on you were on my webpage and are now reading this. But was it really that simple? What actually happened was when you searched that maybe even put in a full link it got put into a package and went out to find this web address that you've typed in. Once it has figured out the IP of this address the webpage and all it's design got put into thousands of little packages to be sent back to your computer placed back in order and displayed on your screen. And all this only happens in about 1 second. All this possible with copper and/or fibre optic cables a lot of coding and an ISP.
The WWW is a place where we find the imformation we want. When we open a Browser we go to our search engine. We search what we like and our searches go through copper/fibre optic cables underneath the ground. Your search is a package making its way to the website to gather detail to then put it on your screen. Your packet is going through Modems to translate it into binary so your computer can understand it. It goes through routers to see if the route ahead has any problems. When your packet gets its information about the site you want to access it sends it back in thousands of packets to then go back through the modems turn back into the way you wanted it and displays on your screen.
The Internet and World Wide Web may sound like they are the same thing, but they aren't, infact they are very different, and this is how.
The Internet is a big and growing thing, it can connect millions of devices to eachother on games and social media and lots of other things, the WWW simply can't do all that. Let's start with the WWW. The WWW (created by 2 men named Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau in 1989) is a place where all these different documents and articles are posted by web hosts. These are obviously not just words but videos can count too. The WWW is where people go to get information (at least most of the time) but without the Internet the WWW would just be a concept, a thought, useless. Luckily 2 men by the names Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf created the internet before so that the WWW had somewhere to be. Back in 1983 (more on this in the "History of the Internet" video link in the "Video Links" tab) the internet was created, a place that we know today that holds social media, youtube, google and lots lots more. So the difference is the Internet is massive and has the smaller but still big WWW in it.
By James Page