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The video that we watched in class today was very interesting. Not only did I learn a little more about the internet, I learned that you do not pick up all the information you think you do when you only watch something once. We watched this video in class three times, and I picked up on more information every time I watched it. The video started off writing by hand and then eventually drifted off into digital text. I really liked that transition because it showed how technology has come such along way. It brought up another point that I have never really thought about; It said that the web can virtually take you anywhere. That, to me, is such a mind blowing piece of information. Anything in the entire world you want to know about all you have to do is type it in to some kind of database finder and it will take you there one way or another. Not only are digital text available, videos are online too. It is weird to know that we have power and are in complete control over such a powerful machine. Millions of links are in the click of a button with our own hand. The video talked about the splitting up of format and content, but I'm really not sure what those two things are and how beneficial they are to us. I learned that it is a really good thing that they are split up, but I'm just not sure why. The last thing the video was trying to stress was that digital text is no longer just linking information, it's people sharing their lives with one another.