online information:
... that which is available when you are connected to the Web, Internet or other networks.
The following quote is from a free-access article online titled, The Internet And The Free Content Concept: Freedom has been one of the essential concepts of the Internet from just about day one (source of quote). Obviously, there are those who would disagree.
The Internet exists as a result of visionary thinkers seeing ... 'great potential value in allowing computers to share information.' Sharing implies freely given (source).
A Wikipedia World Wide Web footnote quotes a Time Magazine article about Tim Berners-Lee stating that ... He wove the World Wide Web and created a mass medium for the 21st century. The World Wide Web is Berners-Lee's alone. He designed it. He loosed it on the world. And he more than anyone else has fought to keep it open, nonproprietary and free. When the Internet emerged in the mid-1990s it was recognized as a ... global network of networks through which computers communicate by sending information in packets (source: definition of Internet from Tim Berners-Lee's Weaving the Web Glossary). A typical online information service (OIS) offered what it had for free in the early years of the Internet. However, information brokers quickly saw opportunities and differences of opinion emerged along with commercialism.
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