Reading 2. Long Live The Web
Long Live The Web
Reflection to the Prompts
In my opinion, the best thing or the most beneficial about the Web is how it contains some helpful information that a user like me myself could use in my diary life if needed. It also provides people with knowledge in the web sites for those who want to learn more about specific stuff or are curious about something that can’t be found in their places but only on the web sites, which shared information around the area or even the world. The “ill effect,” though, is that it could contain some false information that some users might get tricked by. Some web sites could have a virus, and some could be very dangerous to your own server/engine(computer/laptop). Some of those viruses could steal some of your personal information or seek your search habits and stuff, which I feel is dangerous for those who barely know how the web site and internet world works.
From my perspective, universality is great; it gives the user access to search through anything throughout the places and runs around on the internet in an open world. Isolation, though, is the opposite side of universality. In my understanding, it’s like a cage in the zoo that locks you within only a specific area, but in terms of internet exploration, in this case.
Open-standards is something wonderful and mostly tend to be better than closed-worlds. Open-standards basically allow me to search and travel throughout the internet and web sites freely with my own will. Open-standards would give a user like me the freedom to visit any site on the internet as I wanted to. But with a closed-worlds, it’s, again, like putting you into a cage with only limited access within a particular arranged area on the internet and web sites, which would irritate many users and me indeed.
From the text, the web and the internet are separated. From my understanding, a web is a form that runs on the internet, which means there needs to be an internet for the web to work. However, they amazingly work independently from one another. It amazed me how the internet improvement wouldn’t affect the web to be improved and adjust to it. The same point to another; if the web is being readjusted, improved, or developed, it won’t affect the internet.
Lastly, speaking of the author’s vision for the future. I think the author had a clear sight and thought of what could happen in the future. His idea was pretty accurate; for instance, people could use the internet and web to create many wonderful thighs and share them all with the rest worldwide. But the bad point about it that the author was scared of is the human right of the people using the inter and how some of the companies are collecting some of our data which could violate our rights. As a whole, I respect his ideas and his foreseen, and it provided many evidences and examples in the text, which convinced me to believe and agree with his view.