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RE: How the excessive daily use of Internet could affect your memory
Very interesting and true. Before the cell phones were popular I knew all the phone numbers of all the people I knew. Now I don't know the phones of my closest friends or family because I know everything is in the phone. I know many people would say that's not necessarily bad, but it really shows a lower memory capacity.
Whilst I agree mostly that people tended to learn more phone numbers before mobiles, the fact that they tended to be shorter must have helped considerably. In the UK, my landline number was a mere 5 digits (for those living in the same town as me - ie. where all my friends came from; you'd need to know the area code if you lived in another town though). Now, with mobiles, numbers are all 11 digits so a lot harder to memorise.