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Key Web Features
The web leverages the key features
of the Internet and
makes them widely accessible to the public. Key features
of the web in particular are its ease of use, universal accessibility,
and
ability to be quickly searched:
- Ease of use. The web can be immediately used by anyone already familiar
with a computer window. The only special features are links,
which are as natural and intuitive to use as pressing a button. This ease of use enabled the rapid adoption of the web in the 1990's, and led to the establishment of the Internet around the world.
- Universal access. The open design of the web makes it easy to build
web browsers for a wide range of devices. Web browsers have been deployed on cell phones and personal organizers, and the web is now the standard interface for providing
access to information.
- Search capabilities.
The development of search sites greatly multiplied
the power and usefulness of the web by providing the capability to effectively
search the
content of millions of web pages in seconds. Search sites significantly enabled
the web to realize Vannevar Bush's vision
of an automated library system.
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