The World Wide Web is an information system that makes the Internet easier to use. While the Internet is a physical entity (a vast network of computers), the World Wide Web is more of a concept. It is a special way to encode, retrieve, and navigate many resources that are stored on Internet-linked computers. Such resources include e-mail, file transfer protocol, real-time communications, electronic bulletin boards, newsgroups, and Telnet. Each of these applications has a different set of communication rules that allows it take place. The World Wide Web makes all of these applications accessible through one interface.

The Internet has been evolving since the 1960s. Early users could send text messages to each other and store files so that others could access them, but the process was complicated and required knowledge of computer languages. In order for the Internet to become useful to...