PLN #6 The Machine is Using Us

The YouTube video "The Machine is Using Us" matters to me because I never realized how the Internet really works because I never actually think about what I use everyday, I just use it. When it showed how the format of different websites are made, I was flabbergasted. I had no idea that's what it actually looked like.  All the abbreviations and symbols for different parts of a site were so confusing, but somehow made sense. I mean there is no other way you can organize all this information. Most people use the Internet just because they can. They take it for granted. But, imagine not being able to type anything, look up anything, or connect with anyone. You had to write everything with a paper and pen, not pencil. The web has enabled us to do so much. Another thing that astonished me was when it said that we organize the data the Internet contains. I have never thought about where the websites I go on daily are coming from and how they are created. I have always thought along the lines of technology has its own mind and has created itself. But, people have made this thing called computers. I don't know why I didn't know that before, is seems so obvious but no one knows about it. People have put together this giant database of everything there is to know about. One day I could be making a website. People, us, are controling what the Internet does. After all, we made it. Websites are changed and updated daily so who knows what the Internet could look like in a decade. This video impacted me because it gave me a reality check. I need to start thinking about what websites are and do. I need to remember that people actually are making the Internet. I just happen to be one of over a billion users of it. But maybe someday I will be the one organizing the data.