All knowledge is contained on the Internet.
The WWW is like heroin for an info junkie . A blessing because it meant maybe you could, perhaps, find the data from the security of your own computer. A curse because you had to use FTP or Gopher ever so carefully to extract it. Publicly-accessible articles, data, graphics, ephemera, etc. have been liberated over the last few years by the development of the World Wide Web. A few years ago, Mosaic was the first popular Web browser, but things have changed dramatically.