Yeah, the title is a bit misleading. Discmen are a bit too discriminatory, you can also include tapes and records. Anyhoo. Some guy from some high profile mag/site proclaimed that the web is dead.
What he says is partly true. More bandwidth and time is being used by other applications, other than our trusty browsers. People stream vids, check their iPads and others Tweet to their social medians via third party apps. That chart, however, I’ll eat and swallow it if it was printed. It’s stupid. Of course video will have more traffic. It’s videos. Videos > Text/HTML/Web.
Anyhoo, this brings me to a more striking question. What will happen to the Web if it indeed is dead? Are we using a zombie web now? Like a resurrected version. Dude, doesn’t know what he is talking out. It’s like we are using some kind of Jesus version of it.
Alas, let’s assume this guy is wrong and he isn’t as literal like that. What if the web does die out? Just like discmen are now a sign of the past, will the Web become a hipster thing? Like a nostalgic hipster place where people still use blogs and Firefox is being held together by a few dedicated old nerds. I wonder if there are a few of them old BBS boards still being run by Amiga fans?
It is hard isn’t it? To think that HTTP is will die along with the WEB. It’s sad. I’ve got a lump in my throat just thinking about it. RIP WEB.
P.S. – It’s kinda ironic reading that article on the web right? Gotta give it to the guy, he knows how to troll his readers.
