What is WWW Really?

* Hypermedia - Enhanced text and links between pages.

* Distributed - The World is your Filesystem.

* Interactive - Users can interact with the medium.

* Dynamic - implicit control over publishing.

* Platform Independant - Not vendor specific.

* Many Information Sources - Previous Internet Protocols supported.

* Implicit Typing - MIME provides data typing at the server.

* No Central Management - Anyone can publish, no critical dependence on a single server.


Electronic Commerce on the Internet - WWW (World Wide Web) - the "Glossy Brochure"
Rodney Campbell [Rodney.Campbell@Telstra.com.au]
(c) Copyright 1995 Telstra Corporation.

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