30 years later, there are still people who believe that the Internet and the Web are the same

Perhaps you have read or heard that this Tuesday, March 12 marks the 30th anniversary of the Internet. Well, that's not it.
It's the birthday of the web. And it's not the same thing. Many people confuse the Web with the Internet. But the Internet already existed before the Web.

Normally, when you visit a web page, the address begins with three letters: WWW. These are the abbreviations of World Wide Web (or web). It has existed since 1989, when a physicist from CERN (European Center for Nuclear Physics), named Tim Berners-Lee, presented his first proposal on the Web, an invention that would completely change the world.

Computers arrived in September 1990 and this year's Christmas, the World Wide Web was already fully active and active. It was possible thanks to an earlier invention: Internet.

Internet existed before the web

The Internet is a huge network of connected computers around the world. Instead, the Web (the World Wide Web) is a huge collection of pages that relies on this network of computers. So when you browse your mobile phone or computer, you use the Internet to access the Web.

However, although the Internet already exists before anyone has developed a way to connect it to all the documents and data that it now contains. Berners-Lee has found an effective system for using these connections by creating web pages to share information.

How and when was the Internet born?

The origins of the Internet date back to the Cold War. It was part of a research project in a military field. In the 1960s,
The American scientist Joseph Licklider wrote a series of memoranda to develop the technology that would establish the first remote connection between computers.

Licklider called this concept "galactic network", a globally interconnected set of computers for quick access to programs and data. He was director of the computer research program at DARPA (the US Advanced Defense Project Research Agency), which began operations in October 1962.

In 1966, ARPANET was created, which will later become the current Internet.

The web needs the internet to work

In a way, the Internet would equate to an infrastructure – country roads around the world – while the content of web pages is the one that runs through this infrastructure – cars, trucks, buses – that carry information .

Stores, businesses, cafes … that settle on these routes so that citizens (Internet users) can access the web pages would be the servers that host them.

In the absence of the Internet, no one could communicate via the World Wide Web because there would be no way to send this data. And without the World Wide Web, most of us would find it extremely difficult (and much more expensive) to access all the information we have today.