Internet and World Wide Web

This document explains the concept of the Internet and World Wide Web, their relationship, differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0, and the significance of APIs to Web 2.0. It also includes a reference section. The subject is not mentioned in the document. The course code, course name, and college/university are not mentioned.

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Table of Contents
What is the Internet?..................................................................................................................2
What is the relationship between the World Wide Web and the Internet?................................3
What are three purported differences between the World Wide Web as it first emerged and
the more recent Web 2.0?...........................................................................................................3
What are APIs and why are they significant to Web 2.0?.........................................................4
Reference....................................................................................................................................5

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What is the Internet?
The Internet, mostly named as "the Net," can be explained as one worldwide
computer networks or usually the network of networks. Initially the United States based
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), in the year1969 has discovered the concept of
internet, however, in its infancy stage, it was known by the name ARPAnet (Dillman, Smyth
& Christian, 2014). In the current technological era, internet has emerged as one cooperative,
self-sustaining, as well as public facility that provides easy accessibility to millions of people
around the globe. The internet works by utilizing a part of the already available public
telecommunication networks; however, it is distinguished by utilizing a set of protocols,
named as the Transmission control protocol or internet protocol (TCP/IP). The data over the
internet passes in form of the packets, where each packet is associated with one port number
and unique IP address (Assange, Appelbaum, Muller-Maguhn & Zimmermann, 2016). The
internet is mostly used for sharing information worldwide.
What is the World Wide Web?
The "World Wide Web" (WWW) can be described as collection of different public
websites which are connected via the internet world-wide. However, the same is simply
identified as “The Web”, and it is usually confused with the term internet (Choudhury, 2014).
Though, both of them are intricately connected, yet, the two are different things. The internet
is one global network, usually the combination of vast networks, which is comprised by
supporting infrastructures. On flip, WWW is the communications model, which mainly uses
the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), for carrying out information exchange between the
sources over the internet. The websites present in the WWW are always accessed by their
associated domain names and the extensions. For example, the .com, .info, .biz are some

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common and popular domain names. Apart from HTTP, the web is based on two more core
technologies, which are the hypertext mark-up language (HTML) and webserver and web
browser.
What is the relationship between the World Wide Web and the Internet?
The internet, as discussed is the combination of vast networks or collection of
computers, mainly used for storage and transformation of information (Spada, 2014). The
working methodology of internet is based on the transmission control protocol or internet
protocol (TCP/IP) as well as packet switching. On the other hand, the WWW, is the internet
based hypermedia, mainly designed for sharing the information over the internet. In a simpler
form, the term World Wide Web can be expressed as the system mainly used for accessing
the Internet. Though, the WWW is not the one and only system, rather it is the most popular
and commonly used worldwide. Originally, the Internet and the web were created to simplify
and modify the military strategy; however, the popularity and advantages of both the
technology has widely accepted by the people in order to simplify the information transaction
between different parties (Dorogovtsev & Mendes, 2013).
What are three purported differences between the World Wide Web as it
first emerged and the more recent Web 2.0?
Web 1.0 is identified as the initial stage of World Wide Web (WWW) evolution. The
Web 1.0 is the content delivery network (CDN) and costs to the clients as per pages visited.
Initially, there were very less content creators in the Web 1.0; however, with the increasing
popularity and increasing content consumers, the content creators have also increased
(Kollmann, Lomberg & Peschl, 2016). On flip, the Web 2.0, is described as the world wide
website that emphasizes on the user-generated content, interoperability and usability for the
users (Stevenson & Liu, 2013). It is also named as the participative social website. Though it

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do not intend to modify any technical specification, yet, it focuses on modifying the method
in which the Web pages are designed or used. Web 1.0 is more advanced than web 2.0 and
uses different static pages for showcasing the information (Nakamura, Samuels &
Soloveichik, 2018, p.1). These pages are un-editable by the end users, and they can either
accept the available content else rejected it. Whereas, the Web 2.0 has provided the users
with the ability of contributing to the website content by forming a Democracy.
What are APIs and why are they significant to Web 2.0?
The application program interface (API) can be explained as the set of protocols that
is used for integrating and building several application software. APIs are beneficial in
enabling the service to initiate communication with other services without concentrating on
the implementation (Ong et al., 2015). The APIs mostly, are described as one technology,
which enables the software programs and applications to communicate with each other. The
current era is evidencing the importance of APIs, as the same has become vital for the
developers in creating several web applications and services. As discussed, the Web 2.0 is the
set of websites and applications that enables the users to share, create, communicate and
collaborate different information. Using APIs can become advantageous in creating the
applications and services of web 2.0 (Buitinck, et al.,2013).

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