The addresses for many of these sites were obtained at Prevention 98 . The Web is just that - a complicated world wide web of computers and high speed connections. The beauty and the frustration of the web is that almost anyone and any organization can and does have a web page. A web page is just electronic pages of text and pictures that can be transmitted to your monitor for viewing at almost anytime. Most of the information you get does not cost you anything.
Disinformation is as easy to spread as real information.
Many sites give excellent and accurate information. These sites are paid for and maintained by governments, institutions, altruistic individuals or advertisements. The problem has been compared to trying to find a specific book in a library without a card catalog or other assistance. To solve this problem, web crawlers have been developed that go from computer to computer listing the webs sites available. The next problem is putting that information into a usable format.