Response to Lisa Gitelman's, "Always, ALready New"

In Lisa Gitelman's article this week, she states some interesting points about the Internet and new media. She focuses on the history of the World Wide Web, "the largest document ever written", and the effects we see today of this "new" art. Today, the entire society is on the internet 24/7. We can obtain access to the WWW literally everywhere we go. School, home, Walmart, McDonald's, the library, the tire shop, etc. This is efficient for things like checking emails, getting directions, googling store hours and all sorts of things, but there are some worries about the internet in the long run, and the credentials of it for more scholarly uses.
    We rely on the internet so heavily, and need to remember to check into sources before claiming its the truth. News can be posted on a public webpage in a matter of seconds after the event, even during an event and will be seen by hundreds or thousands of people within the first few minutes. This makes me nervous to trust everything I see because it older types of media such as newspapers and magazines news artifacts go through multiple overviews and edits before being exposed to the world, therefore we don't see that news until a day or two after the event actually happens. This method isn't as quick obviously but tends to offers more reliable artifacts.
   Another interesting and important factor of the internet that Gitelman writes about is Error 404, and the amount we are seeing it when trying to select a hyperlink that is outdated. I find this really interesting because writings that are cited by internet pages, that only last " an average of 45 days" have a strong likelihood of losing credibility though the source may be one hundred percent legitimate. A quote in her article from Cerruzi says, "it's still too early to tell" about these factors of the internet, but, "with the persistence of Error 404 we may already be too late".