The WWW is the cheapest mass medium to publish on. You need to buy space somewhere on a server, you need to register a domain name and you need to continue your payments for holding that space. That is all. All this can also be done for free.
Perhaps the cheap cost of publishing on the Internet is the most profound aspect of the medium.
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It means that anyone can contribute to it. This means that the contribution to the space, the way it looks and it's contents will never be able to be limited.
It means that it will be organic: as a whole and in it's various parts. Part of what it means to have a site is to have that site evolving. Why? Just because it can. Just because the cost of updating pages on the Internet is the price of a telephone call.
It means that it subverts the usual hierarchies set up by the cost of publishing. So combined, the accessibility and cheap cost of publishing, make the Web a global democratic medium.
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