<p>@post #374: C’mon, everyone knows that Al Gore invented the internet.</p>
<p>Seriously, though, the internet is the descendant of ARPANet, followed by NSFnet, followed by the internet as we know it now. It runs on the TCPIP protocol. The web is an application that sits on top of the internet, analogously to the way that a word processing program sits on top of the op system.</p>
<p>The web is indeed a European creation, from CERN. The web added the visuals and other elements to the earlier internet-based information retrieval system, gopher, which was developed at the University of Minnesota.</p>