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How Does The Internet Work With The World Wide Web?

By Eleanor Sinclair April 6, 2026

How Does The Internet Work With The World Wide Web?

So we’re gonna talk about the difference
between the web, the internet, the dark web, and the deep web. However, in
order to talk about all of these things and figure out why they’re different,
we need to start with the basics of the web and the internet because most
people confuse those as well as confusing the deep web and the dark web and how
they’re different.

Essentially, we’re just gonna try and
figure all that out today in this article.

What is the internet?

The internet is the physical connection of
all the computers that are joined together across the world that’s probably the
easiest way of looking at it. It started off with ARPANET in the late 60s which
was a few research agencies getting together to connect their computers from a
long distance.

This is when computers were huge things in
massive rooms. The ARPANET then graduated to the NSFNET, which was the National
Science Foundation net. This was all the universities connecting together into
a bigger network and then that eventually, at the start of the 90s it became
the internet.

When you connect to the internet from your
home, your computer simply connects to the internet. It then becomes one of the
many other computers (nodes) on the internet. 
Therefore, when you see a picture of several computers joined together
in a network and the network is the lines between them to

When you’re at home and you turn on your
computer and it connects to Virgin Media or whoever, you simply crop up on the
internet and then it connects you to one of the computers. Suddenly you’re part
of the whole big internet network that you may not even be aware of or think
about.

Now, every computer on the internet has
what’s called an IP address. This is an address which is unique to that
computer on the internet. When your computer connects to the internet, it gets
its own IP address, which is basically its home address in the cyberworld.

If you want to know what that is, you can
just go to Google, type in “IP address”, and Google helpfully tells
you “your IP address is this”. All the computers have this unique address,
and it’s like a sort code for a bank, as in every branch of a bank has a unique
sort code.

When you are sending money, it goes to the
address based on that sort code. Likewise, every computer has this IP address
on the internet and it allows computers to know which exact computer they’re
talking to when they’re asking for information.

The World Wide Web

When you connect to the world wide web, you
using a specific piece of software called a browser to request information from
another computer. For example, if I want to visit Il
corsaro nero
, I would search on something like Google using what is called
a browser. That is Internet Explorer, Chrome, or Safari. You will already be
using one of these pieces of software to connect to the internet.

Now to differentiate the World Wide Web
from let’s say a standard file transfer we would need to break protocols. A
protocol, as you may well already know, is a set of rules. On the internet
there thousands of protocols used by many different software programs that are
not part of the World Wide Web.

For example, a simple file transfer
software application does not need to access the World Wide Web. It just needs
to know the IP address of the computer it wants to make the transfer with. The
software should be installed on both machines in the file transfer transaction.
Then, the transfer is then done as long as both devices’ software programs use
the same protocol that allows them to communicate.

Now the World Wide Web uses its own
protocols via the browsers such as Safari and Chrome. People install websites on
their computers that can be accessed and shared by protocols used by browsers.
Therefore effectively the World Wide Web is governed by software called
browsers that can use the same protocols to transfer information. And we all
have browsers, don’t we?

Now if I want to watch corsaro nero then all I need to do is open my
browser and find a website that offers me this channel through a browser. As I
am using a browser to ask how to get corsaro nero, then only results that contain the ability to
access a corsaro nero website will show up in the results.

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