World Wide Web software uses hypertext and multimedia techniques to make it easy for anyone to roam the planet, browse the many different computers now online, and contribute information and ideas for everyone. Home pages usually have many added pages tacked on behind. A nyone with an ordinary computer, software and access to the Internet can publish a Web page. A Web site, then, has a hardware server running server software and a connection via telephone line to the world. F or many companies, especially small ones, the Internet is hard to resist.
Overheads are minimal.
In some businesses, distance may not even affect delivery costs because the order can be passed to a regional warehouse, or the goods may be shipped electronically. And on the Internet, no one knows whether you are a giant multinational company or a one-man band. A handful of companies have shown that on-line commerce can work if you pick your product carefully.