Anyone with a little skill can add to the pool of information that is
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. SOmebody has posted some kind of information on just about every hobby
imaginable, for example. This freedom also means that 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 you
have it 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.