[Pan_Yans Wife]

But instead of patenting his invention he chose to put it on to the internet the following year, opening access to all – and the rest is history.

How can he put the world wide web on the internet? Isn't the web the internet?

[Tribune7]

He created hypertext and URLs and can fairly be said to have founded the World Wide Web.

[Tribune7]

Isn't the web the internet?

No, the "the web" runs on the internet. Think of what the Internet was like before Netscape Navigator, and that's what it would be like without Berners-Lee.

[1066AD]

Not really, WWW piggybacks in a sense. The Internet without the WWW required command line style terminals - think of UNIX commands you've seen - text based in other words, but still useful and powerful, just not so user-friendly.