Likewise, searching through a card catalog at a library can be a time-consuming, tedious process, but you can search an online version of the same catalog in a fraction of the time. Cost saving . Exchanging information via the Internet is less expensive than using telephones or fax machines, especially where telephone access fees are high. Likewise, marketing your services or products on the Internet can be less expensive than using conventional printing and document-delivery methods. Two-way communication .
Audiences now have the means to respond directly to sources of information, research, and opinions.
There are no bosses, no board of directors, no stockholders, and no political rules. Each group of people accessing the Internet is responsible for its own machine and operation of its own section of the network. The Internet belongs to everyone and no one. No single authority controls the Internet, nor does one central computer power it. Whoever is in charge of, or operating, each computer connected to the Internet decides what information to make available on it.