What is the difference between the internet, TCP/IP and the WWW?

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I understand all three concepts are inter-connected, but would love to get an ei5 explanation of each and how they’re related. Thank you in advance.

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To keep it as simple as possible: The internet is the network we’ve built that allows us to communicate. TCP/IP is a protocol that dictates **how** we communicate, like smoke signals/morse code. Not only that, but also how we make sure messages are transferred over the network and arrive to the correct person. The World Wide Web is a system of locating internet reources via URLs and hyperlinks. It’s what you and I are using now through browsers as opposed to, say, a peer-to-peer that directly uses a computer’s address.