Because a corporate or institutional site holds your page and distributes it on the World Wide Web, there is no need for a computer and phone lines to distribute it yourself. Because your page is stored in a remote workspace, there is no need for a large hard drive on your own computer to store it. Although most of the workspaces provided are much less than a gigabyte, you do not need to store your own program for how your page responds to the user because there is a standard code for Web pages that all programs and services that access them follow. You also do not need to store all the files of interest to your Web page, because if they exist almost anywhere on the Internet, you can make a link to them so that the user can access them just the same. And even if they are not currently on the Internet, there are many public file archive sites on the Internet, one of which is bound to accept the type of material you want to upload.
Web pages are thus easier to learn to make.
There are many sources of information, including Web pages themselves, which are dedicated to teaching how to make a Web page. Users also have reason to prefer the World Wide Web to bulletin board systems. Since a BBS must be reached by dialing it with the modem, the only way to reach one that is not geographically located in your area is by using long-distance phone service, which can cost a lot of money if you stay online for long. Most BBSes are not worth the long-distance charges just to connect. In contrast, an on-line service will access a Web page from anywhere around the world at no additional expense.