What is the difference between “Web-enabled” and “Internet-enabled”?
The Internet, designed in the 1960s by the U.S. Department of Defense so that a communication signal could withstand a nuclear war and serve military institutions worldwide, was first known as the ARPAnet. ARPAnet was a system of linked computer networks, international in scope, facilitating data communication services such as remote log-in, file transfer, e-mail and newsgroups. The Internet is a way of connecting existing computer networks that greatly extends the reach of each participating system. When Internet is written with a lowercase “i” it usually refers to a group of LANs that have been connected by a common communications protocol. Many internets, including many TCP/IP-based networks, are not linked to the Internet. The Defense Data Network is a case in point. The Web is a global hypertext system that uses the Internet as its transport mechanism. In a hypertext system, navigation is done by clicking hyperlinks, which display another document that also contains hyperlinks. Cr
