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I say that the Internet can be accessed by many different means, the most
popular of which is the web because it is a graphical interface to
the net. I don't think I say it exactly like that, but . . . I briefly
mention that e-mail is part of using the Internet and mention ftp and
gopher. But mainly how I explain the difference is that the web is
graphical and you don't really need to know a set of commands to navigate
it, you can click on links to get to where you want to go.

Kathy Wheeler                    e-mail: kwheeler@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
Electronic Services Librarian
University Library
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL  36688
homepage: http://library.southalabama.edu

On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Jo-Ann Benedetti wrote:

>      Hi all...
>
>      I have a hard time with clarifying the Internet and the different
>      protocols. I want to know how you explain the difference between the
>      Internet and the Web to non-technical people.  Do you say that
>
>      1.  The Internet is a worldwide computer network and the way these
>      computers "communicate" is through different protocols (telnet, ftp,
>      mail, http...)
>
>
>      or
>
>      2.  e-mail, gopher, telnet, web are parts of the Internet
>
>
>      or
>
>      3.  do you use some sort of clever analogy?  (the Internet is like the
>      phone system and telnet, web, gopher are like voice mail, call
>      forwarding...blah, blah, blah)
>
>
>      Just wondering.
>
>      Jo-Ann
>