In order to discuss the better uses of the World-Wide Web, I must first describe these special features. Skills required . I have mentioned already that few skills are required to consult material on the World-Wide Web. To publish material on the World-Wide Web, however, does require training. Publishing in this way is therefore a matter better left to those with the time and patience to do so.
Material is available at the moment it is published.
Anyone who is connected to the Internet may retrieve, view, store, or print the material. Most universities are connected to the Internet, and those who work at universities are among the most frequent users and providers of materials on the Internet. For purposes of academic research, the World-Wide Web has the advantage that an author and his readers are able to communicate easily and rapidly by electronic means. This is possible because, as a consequence of the technology, an electronic link between the author and each reader is established by the very act of publishing in this way. Accordingly, if I publish on the World-Wide Web some piece of written work I might, for example, receive notes from readers indicating that a word has been misspelled or a citation omitted.