One Interface to all Internet information

User sees a single user-interface to multiple resources on multiple servers

Multiple document formats

Most web publishing consists of making files available to the public. Commonly seen document/file formats on the WWW include:

Document Type	File Name
simple text	.txt, etc.
HTML hypertext (HTML)	.html [or .htm]
images (especially GIF and JPEG)	.gif or .jpeg [.jpg]
sounds	.au , .mid, .wav, etc.
video (MPEG or Quicktime)	.mpg or .mov
Adobe Acrobat (PDF)	.pdf
files for downloading	e.g. .hqx, .doc
scripts that generate other file types	.cgi

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