A departmental workgroup can provide different types of printers high quality, draft, special stationery, color. In a network, users can direct the print to whichever printer is nearest or most convenient. If you want to send a quick message, it's not always possible to get to a phone, and if you don't have an answering machine, your message may not get through. E-Mail allows you to send or receive messages to anyone on the same network or through a gateway to an individual in another department, site, or institution at any time. You always need to get information from a variety of sources your colleagues, library, universities you don't always have the time to visit other sites and yet you need to communicate, collaborate, and cooperate with your associates.
Networked computers provide more options to improve productivity.
WWW stands for World-Wide Web. The advantage of hypertext is that in a hypertext document, if you want more information about a particular subject mentioned, you can usually just click on it to read further detail. To access the web, you run a browser program. The browser reads documents, and can fetch documents from other sources. Information providers set up hypermedia servers which browsers can get documents from.