Section: Description of the Internet
...Subsection: What the Internet IS

A vast repository of information

Anyone with a little skill can add to the pool of information on the Internet. Many people with widely differing interests have added information to the Web. The wealth of subject matter available on the Web is due to the thousands of people who post information for themselves, organizations they belong to, or their employers. For example, information has been posted on just about every hobby imaginable. This freedom also means there is absolutely no editing on the Web, except that which is self imposed by Web authors. There is absolutely no reason to believe that something is true just because it is posted on the Web.

Relatively universal

It doesn't matter much what type of computer you are using, once it is hooked up to the Internet. You can read documents that were written on any type of computer, provided they were written according to some type of established Internet protocol. Computer scientists refer to this concept as platform independence.

Dynamic

The content of the Internet changes many times a second. Millions of people are adding and deleting information from their own personal part of the Internet at any given time.