The internet computers are fully distributed. This means all the documents mounted on all the internet computers are available to you. There are no extra charges to read or download material if it is held interstate or overseas, rather than locally. Long-distance charges will only apply if there is no internet service provider in your local area, but all capitals and most Australian cities now have access by local calls. The browser fetches and displays documents.
Current browsers can display text and images.
If you are reading this page using Lynx, a text-only browser, then you will not be able to see the graphics or listen to the sounds, though you will be able to read the text. A key feature of the WWW is the hypertext document. In fact, documents can be and often are linked to other documents by completely different authors. The tags are decoded by your browser to alter the appearance of the text. Another tag, the image tag, will load a picture.