Fill in the Blanks INTERNETOnline version Internet as a decentralized communications network. by Alfonso Poza 1 hyperlinks international navigate owns intentional browser Web hardware interconnectivity communications authority attacks The World Wide Web , or the , is often confused with the Internet . In fact , it is just one part of the Internet , along with email , videoconferencing , and streaming audio channels . A network of networks , today , the Internet serves as a global data system that links millions of private , public , academic and business networks via an telecommunications backbone that consists of various electronic and optical networking technologies . Decentralized by design , no one the Internet and it has no central governing . As a creation of the Defense Department for sharing research data , this lack of centralization was to make it less vulnerable to wartime or terrorist . The terms " Internet " and " World Wide Web " are often used interchangeably ; however , the Internet and World Wide Web are not one and the same . The Internet is a vast and software infrastructure that enables computer . The Web , on the other hand , is a massive hypermedia database ? a myriad collection of documents and other resources interconnected by . Imagine the World Wide Web as the platform which allows one to the Internet with the use of a such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox .
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