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What is the difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web?

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1. Internet is a massive collection of networks. It connects millions of computer together so as to communicate as long as they are connected.
WWW is a means of accessing information over the medium of INTERNET.

2. Internet allows us to communicate with many computers/workstations.
WWW is just an information model and works through protocols.

-Dipankar Mazumdar

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