Did you know there is a difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web? I bet most people reading did not know that they are different. Thanks to our presentations, we learned the difference. The World Wide Web is a software that runs within the internet and they rely on each other to work properly. One is incomplete without the other! It is like a mutualistic relationship in the animal kingdom. A mutualistic relationship is when two separate animal species have a mutual benefit from a relation. An example of this would be between a worker bee and a flower. The bee flies from flower to flower gathering nectar, which they make into food, benefiting the bees. When they land on the flower, the bees get some pollen on their hairy bodies, and when they land in the next flower, some of the pollen from the first one rubs off, pollinating the plant. This benefits the plants. In this mutualistic relationship, the bees get to eat, and the flowering plants get to reproduce. This is very similar to the relationship between the Internet and the World Wide Web, which also goes by the name www.
Neither can work without the other, they need each other and they rely on each other to work. For an example of the way that it works, the Internet can be viewed as a big book store, meanwhile the World Wide Web can be viewed as the collection of books in the library of the Internet.
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