I thought, What a dumb question. But it s actually not, because they are different. The two are linked, though it s not obvious exactly how.
T o understand the Internet, think back to the mainframe era.
The promise of mainframes was productivity. Everyone could access them. The problem was that they were expensive to buy and to maintain, plus they were hard to program and the end-user experience was poor. Although it ran on cheaper hardware, the maintenance costs remained high, especially to upgrade applications on multiple computers. Also, every department had a computer system and an administrator.