The internet and world wide web are different things. The internet was first. The internet is a collection of servers, network routers, and other communication devices together with the associated protocols so that they communicate with each other. Making use of the services offered by this network are a number of "applications" such as the WWW, Peer to Peer, FTP, eMail, etc. Before WWW there were Bulletin Boards, FTP, Gopher and other applications making use of the network. The world wide web only came into existence when Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML that allowed web pages to be designed and run on the internet.