![]() ![]() Generally, all such protocols have different "port numbers" assigned to them – HTTPS has 443, DNS has 53, and so on. Websites are accessed using the HTTP protocol, but you could find many examples of services that run over the internet, but don't use the web nor HTTP (after all, the internet had been in use for a good decade before the web was invented) – DNS is one such service, email is another, and most online games aren't actually web-based either. ![]() Or in other words, the internet's job is to transfer data around between IP addresses, and a website is just one specific kind of data (in a similar way that news broadcasts are just one of many things that can be shown on TV). "Web" isn't exactly the same thing as "internet" – it is just one of many different services that happen to be carried over the internet. 8.8.8.8 is a public IP address, if it's not a webpage, what would it be? ![]()
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