The World Wide Web is the system of linked pages, documents, and resources you access through a browser. It is a layer on top of the internet, not the internet itself.
Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web in 1989 and built the first browser and web server soon after. That is why web pages use links and addresses that browsers can jump between, while the underlying internet is just the transport network that carries the data.
That distinction matters because email, file transfer, and other internet services are not the web. The web is the browser-based part built around URLs, links, and shared standards, which is exactly what W3C exists to maintain.
If a page opens in Chrome, Safari, or Firefox and can jump through hyperlinks, you are using the Web layer. If the service works without a browser, it may still use the internet, but it is not necessarily part of the World Wide Web.
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