The required reading “Long Live the Web” relates highly to our course because we are both discovering the freedom of a platform that can create sites on the web as a way to express one’s creative ideas. Using the web can be connected to millions of other sites, which is something that we are already learning by experimenting with the fundamentals of HTML. Like speech, everyone should have the right to express their inner thoughts, which can be mapped out into one single platform that is a website for all to see. People have the chance to browse around each component of a site, giving various perspectives on how the creator of the site wishes for their site to be seen. To create a basic site, like it discusses in the article, it only requires three fundamental components: writing a page in HTML format, naming it with a URI convention, and serving it up on the internet with an HTTP. These are all things that will be covered in our own class, relating it to Lee’s article. Any website is universal to the world, and there are no barriers from viewing a creator’s site. The Web is essentially one large platform for people’s art, containing any type of information, being uploaded for the whole world to see. Because the web is so open ended, the possibility for innovation is endless for anyone and everyone. Websites are not locked like apps, because apps, on one hand, limits the user to x amount of options, whereas sites on the other hand, can be linked to multiple other sites, allowing the user to jump from one location to the other. The other article, “A Network of Fragments”, educates the reader by informing them that their internet/wireless connection to the world is not solely based from large buildings that supply these resources. The internet does not exist in just one location, but rather, in constant motion, like their users. As Burrington says, the internet comes in fragments. Similar to what we learned in class, images do not transfer as a whole piece, but instead, get divided into small bits and pieces, are rearranged, and then put back into order once it reaches its final destination which is, the user’s screen. These images, videos, etc, are also, like Burrington says, fragmented just like the internet. There is a common misconception that these resources come in whole forms, but the matter of fact is that they are highly segmented and apart from one another in the process of transmission. The internet lives underground and in the ocean, never just in one single location such as a building. The internet lives just as we do, always on the move, whether that be from a tower, underneath the highways that we drive over, or beneath the seas in which we sail.