But clearly there is more going on here than mystique. Generation after generation of students has been naive about print despite its familiarity. Computer-mystique cannot explain the whole problem. Much more of it lies in the authority that students are willing to attribute to any published text. But this too is odd, at least for texts published online.
Most students understand how easy it is to put dreck on the web.
Some have done it themselves and know it. Many have their favorite examples of dreck on the web. So they should distrust what they read online much more than what they read in print. Perhaps they do. Still, students don't distrust enough.