Most people use the terms “Internet” and “World Wide Web” interchangeably, but they actually refer to different things.

If you’ve got to get really technical about it, the Internet is the entire network that includes the web servers and the computers that ruin the software that make surfing possible.

The World Wide Web, on the other hand, simply refers to the websites. There’s a darned lot of them—millions, and counting. But there are also a lot of network traffic that doesn’t count as “the web”. (Think of it as behind-the-scenes work that silently but simultaneously run beyond the access of Google.)