More sophisticated uses are however possible.
The statistics on the use of the Internet backbone show that the use of WWW is growing exponentially and is becoming one of the most important media for global information sharing. In this paper, we describe the main features of WWW, then discuss some reasons for its success, and finally, we analyze those features that should prove most interesting for distance learning. The most common configuration is for an information provider to run one of the public domain HTTP servers available for all sorts of platforms, and for an information consumer to run one of the public domain HTML viewers, among which Mosaic is probably the most well known because of its multimedia features. Easy interfacing with external viewers. New types can even be defined, with appropriate viewers if necessary.