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While there’s no question that both Facebook and the mobile app ecosystem provide clear challenges to “the web,” the idea that the browser front end was ever the key to the web’s dominance is so, well, 1995 , from the days when Netscape thought that the “webtop” would displace the desktop. But the competitive action has always been on the internet as transport, with data-driven services as the back end. Back when I put on my first conference, the Perl Conference, in 1997, I was already talking about how the internet was becoming a vast repository of programmable services, that screen scraping and overloaded URLs were pointing towards a future internet operating system.
Wired Declares The Web Is Dead—Don’t Pull Out The Coffin Just Yet
The Web is dead, or at least in decline, declares Wired editor Chris Anderson in the magazine’s September cover story . The article is anchored by the startling infographic above, which shows the proportion of different types of traffic on the Internet. The Web, HTML traffic visible though a browser, is only about a quarter (23%) of the overall traffic, down from about half a decade ago. It’s been pushed down by peer-to-peer (23%), video (51%), and other types of apps which use the Internet for transport but are not browser-based. It’s not clear what exactly Wired is counting as video, but presumably it is not all of the Flash video on YouTube which is very much part of the Web. Setting aside whether Wired massaged the numbers to make its chart look pretty, Anderson’s larger point is that increasingly we are consuming information via apps other than the browser.
In 1997 Wired Magazine declared the browser dead. “Sure, we’ll always have Web pages. We still have postcards and telegrams, don’t we?” said Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf. They were wrong, of course. The browser is still the killer app of killer apps.
When Wrong, Call Yourself Prescient Instead
Is the web really dead? - Boing Boing
By Rob Beschizza at 9:29 am Tuesday, Aug 17 Wired uses this graph to illustrate Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff's claim that the world wide web is "dead." Their feature, The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet , is live at Wired's own website.
Today’s idea: The Web as we knew it is dead, argue a pair of articles in Wired. With the rise of mobile phones, the general-purpose browser is being eclipsed by specialty apps. At the same time, the Web’s countless entrepreneurs have been overshadowed by old-style media moguls. Internet | “The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet,” declares Wired in its latest issue.
Did the App Kill the Web? - Idea of the Day Blog - NYTimes.com
A VC: Is The Web Dead?
My friend Howard Lindzon DM'd me on Twitter last night. He asked if I would agree to be interviewed on Skype next week on a series he is doing titled "The Web Is Dead." When I saw the DM, I shuddered. My good friend the web is dead? No way. But then I thought about a conversation I had with Saul Klein when I was in London a few weeks ago.
Wired Says 'The Web is Dead' — On Its Increasingly Profitable Website
Chris Anderson will generate plenty of chatter with his "The Web is Dead" Wired cover, foretold here previously . Fair enough; that's what a smart magazine editor does. But all the more reason to note the rich ironies in his eulogy.
Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine and the author of such books as “Free” and “The Long Tail,” has written a piece for the magazine with the provocative — make that inflammatory — headline: “The Web Is Dead: Long Live the Internet.” His point seems to be that the web as we have come to know it is going away, to be replaced by an ecosystem of discrete applications for specific purposes, many of which are based on proprietary platforms such as the iPhone and the iPad. To which we are tempted to respond: “Hey Chris, welcome to 2010. Nice of you to join us.”
The Web Isn’t Dead; It’s Just Continuing to Evolve
The Wired cover story on “ The Web is Dead? A Debate ” has in fact caused an intense debate of the question, taking place — of course — on the web . It may be seen as somewhat ironic that on just the following day we get two pieces of news from Google that would point in the other direction: a demo of the future of browser games and a Chrome OS tablet together with Verizon (aside: sure didn’t take long after their joint pronouncement on net neutrality ). Much has been made of the potential shift of attention from the totally open web to more proprietary platforms on mobile devices.
