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Consider these few educationally problematic details about "the Internet Browsing experience":  In most cases from an Internet-connected web site (i.e. from a web site which vends or delivers web pages) at best we end-users can get what is called "static web page content".  A "static web page" is a web page in which the content, the real "meat" of the web page which people want to read and understand, is FIXED.  That valued web content has for the last 20 years been hard-to-change web pages.  Too often static web pages were authored many months or years ago.  Yes, with modern computers and laptops, and now with smart phones and lighter and more portable tablet computers as well, we can get the information we think we want and find related information in mere seconds.  With the newer "Web 2.0" content management systems installed on web servers, it is easier for web page authors to update the web content they created and make new or derived versions of it.

But how "good" or "high quality" or "accurate" is that information?  Who, if anyone, endorses that information's quality or accuracy?  Is that search-and-find process a good or "better" use of finding and interacting with existing Internet content?  Who is saying or deciding that it is or is not the case?  Are "those decisions" entirely the result of some unspecified secret statistical analysis done by the the giant search engine companies who monitor the public's daily and hourly and per-second use of their search engine facilities?

With the exception of what are known as "Wiki" web pages, and now increasingly many web pages on so called "Web 2.0" web sites, which content can change overnight at an author's whim, static web pages make up 95% or more of the truly informative or truly educational web pages that exist on the Internet.  But they are still more like hard-bound or paperback textbook content, just more quickly accessible and changeable if and only if you have access to a computer.  However most of this content will never be challenged and will never be changed or otherwise updated in the 3-5 years following it's web-publication!  If the content is truly educational, which term I will try to define elsewhere on this web site, then the educational content is too much like that within an ordinary hard-bound textbook:  it will not be changed for 3 or 5 or even 10 or more years!  Also human beings, particularly the original authors and most interested reviewers and revisers of the material, still have to remember that a page or number of pages within the published material needs updating.  And they must remember and coordinate with each other to make those changes in a "timely fashion".