Many people think the Internet and the Web are simply two names for the same entity.
Given the prominence of the World Wide Web, it is easy to forget there is a great deal more to the information superhighway than the web itself. If we view the Internet as a pie, the Web is a slice. A good sized slice to be sure, but still only a fraction of the whole. The Internet originated in order to spur communication between researchers and the military. In addition, people in general wanted to be able to connect to any computer on the network, no matter where it was located.