difference b/w Internet and World Wide Web

[belauk]

The terms Internet and World Wide Web are often used in everyday speech without much distinction. However, the Internet and the World Wide Web are not one and the same. The Internet is a global data communications system. It is a hardware and software infrastructure that provides connectivity between computers. In contrast, the Web is one of the services communicated via the Internet. It is a collection of interconnected documents and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs

[Jimmyad1]

The Internet, sometimes called simply "The Net" is a worldwide system of computer networks - a network of networks in which users at any one computer can, if they have permission get information any other computer.
WWW is the abbreviation of World wide web. A technical definition of WWW is all the resources and users on the internet that are using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol(HTTP).

[tomsmith]

www is just a part of the internet.
There are many other parts. Newsgroups, email and so on. The internet is the backbone that carries the information for these different programs. That is all.
Contrary to what some are saying here that there "isn't a difference". Those people just don't know any better. The internet was here long before the World Wide Web (www)

[stevesul]

WWW means World-Wide-Web, which is the same as the internet, many interlinked networks containing computers (some hosting websites), servers, and other hardware.