E LATEX and the World Wide Web
Today it is no longer sufficient to produce professional-looking printed output on paper; one has to be able to get it online as well, that is, make it available in electronic form of some kind. To some extent, PostScript output fulfills this requirement in that it may be considered electronic paper. However, as we point out in Section 17.4, true electronic documents are something quite different.
The Internet used to be a nice, quiet neighborhood where academics could exchange simple, plain text e-mails or obtain known files by FTP, until it was invaded by the rowdy World Wide Web with its corporate identities, slick advertising, energetic yuppies, anarchists, and revolutionaries. In other words, it went cosmopolitan. ...
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