Simply put, the Web can do the information superhighway thing better than any
on-line service. Heads up, Mac managers. All those WAN service projects you have
stalled because you couldn't afford to build your own WAN infrastructure and
were afraid to trust AOL's and CompuServe's just became doable. Put them on the
front burner now. Here's why.
Internet and the
World-Wide Web will kill on-line services by making them unnecessary
Information Superhighway
Web servers and communications applications must be built with available tools,
requiring a substantial commitment of company resources and experienced staff
investment will pay off
computing infrastructure is largely transparent and highly distributed
Web users don't have to pay for this infrastructure directly, nor are they
penalized for trying to access it at the highest possible bandwidth.
nearly free
You could make operational or interface changes whenever you desired and not
have to worry about propagating them through an on-line service's restricted
forum-management tools.
This article explains how Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, wants every person on the planet to have the right to access the Internet.