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Originally Posted by Pierre
When you say Internet, you really mean the WWW. there's a bit more to it.
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That really depends on whether the person saying "internet" understands the difference between "internet" and "world wide web".
Internetworking is a concept dating back to the early 1970s. It allowed very different computer networks to "talk" to each other. Vint Cerf, the man most directly responsible for this, coined the term "internetting".
Vint Cerf and Bob Khan, the man who brought him in to solve the inter-networking problem, are both US citizens, and were working on what was ultimately a US Government funded project.
The World Wide Web is one of the many applications that emerged to take advantage of the infrastructure afforded by the Internet. The WWW has become so powerful and flexible that these days, a great many things that predated it, like Usenet, email and IRC, are frequently accessed via a web browser. This, presumably, is part of the reason why the distinction between the Net and the Web has become muddied in the minds of many users.