WE are the Web

In Michael Wesch’s educational video, Web 2.0 … The Web Is Us/ing Us, really makes us think about how the web has changed so much in so little time. This video covers a lot of topics and I had to watch it at least times, forward, rewind, pause and take notes on it to really grasp and understand the message of this video.  The concept is how we are the ones stretching out the web.

To start, the content of this video was awesome. There was so much going through my mind when there were not even direct words given. When Wesch added that music, it just makes you drawn into the video and even more interested in the subject. When we are trying to learn something, we assume that we need words and direct words. But this showed us that we can learn so much by just watching!

Through all of the things I learned from watching this video, there were many subjects that really stuck with me.  One of these being that this shows how they can go through everything done in cyberspace all the way back to when the web was created. This was showed when they went to the website called The Wayback Machine. This website was that you could go back to any webpage in history and all the same information and formatting will be there. Michael Wesch also proved that we used to have to go to so much work just to make a page or a document. We had to go to formatting and know all of the abbreviations such as <p> for paragraph, <i> for italic, and <b> for bold, etc. Nowadays, we just type in what we want, and we can find or publish it in a second. We pretty much have to do no work compared to when the web was first used. The web became so modernly-accurate because we were the ones who taught it. When the Wesch showed The Web 2.0 on Wired, I understood that if we think of the web as a child (even though we all know technology is very smart), we will comprehend this better. When we teach children little things, it sticks with them for a long time. Therefore, when we feed stuff into the web, we are teaching the web an idea so that it stretches out second by second each day.

This video makes me wonder, is the web taking too much of our time and taking away our traditions of learning through text books?  Obviously, the web has a very positive impact on our learning, but it is taking away our history. Some people do not believe in technology because they want to keep our traditions. If they think about it though, we are learning more than we ever would have dreamed of through the web.

All in all, I loved this video because it made us think hard about how the web was created and how it continues to stretch every day when over 100 billion times a day, a human clicks on a web page. In my opinion, if the word saw this video, it would change many perspectives on the web.