Web Basics

What is on the web?

• millions of pages of information, growing daily, from
• millions of computers around the world
  

What is the range of information?

• commercial items for sale: antiques to skis to books
• games
• entertainment information and video clips
• serious (although fewer) sites featuring scholarly and research materials
• educational material for teachers to elementary school papers
  

What is free on the web?

• most commercial sites
• almost all government information
• almost all non-profit organizations
• some educational and academic information
  

What is not free on the web?

• most scholarly and research sites (available through subscription only)
• articles from major magazines and newspapers
  TRANSLATION: you have to pay for the information!

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