The Cobweb was an interesting read to me because it was talking about how delicate a web page can be. From when I was younger till now I would always find dead links from time to time, naturally i just thought probably the web page from the 90’s or something and that the page was dead because the link was so old. Now don’t get me wrong I never thought a web page could last forever but I also didn’t think the average lifespan for a web page was 3 months & change (100 days) I always it would be longer than that. But another thing that caught my attention in the article was the Wayback Machine, the Wayback Machine to me is kind of like a virtual time capsule filled with web pages (and sites) that’ll live on forever but probably won’t ever see the light of day again.
The Reading Brain was particularly interesting to me because this was something I used to think about on my own. Although I don’t like reading for fun but I’ve always preferred physical texts because I felt the physical text was more easy to follow and flipping through the pages felt like walking through an adventure. Basically what I’m trying to say is that flipping through pages in a book is what makes reading reading. I have nothing against reading digitally, I love technology it’s what I major in, I can read an article or two digitally but when it comes to extensive reading eventually my eyes start to hurt and i forget ⅓ or more of what I just finished reading. Reading digitally just isn’t as effective to me as reading a paperback, even though it satisfied my laziness. Now these were my thoughts on digital vs physical reading before the article, so after reading it was a little weird that the article was reiterating my thoughts. It was like the author was reading my mind as I read along.