You can retrieve a home page from Washington, DC, as easily as you can retrieve one from Bangkok. And pages can be linked together, through hypertext . For consumers and creators of information, this is the best and worst of all possible worlds. You should be just as skeptical when you are consuming information on the Internet. Schools post cafeteria menus online.
Frustrated poets publish bits of doggerel on their sites.
Families share pictures of their children with the world. We are in a new Age of Information. But some of it is Bad Information. The Internet is the home to the Library of Congress and CBS News but also of conspiracy theorists and professional rumor mongers. It pays to be skeptical, to be a smart surfer, and browse with a critical eye.