Death of the Web

On the bright side MS has stopped going after people offering Dos and Win 3.0 for free:)


http://www.386experience.com/operating.html
https://winworldpc.com/library
http://vetusware.com/os/DOS/?os=1&=&filter=1&page=3

www.fdisk.com is still alive with Dos internet tools

2 Likes

If Superbowl advertising is any indication, the trend appears to be to direct users back to marketing websites and away from social media platforms again.

http://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/news/2017/02/08/in-super-bowl-advertising-brands-suggested-theyre.html

Hashtags made it into just 30 percent of the ads aired during Super Bowl LI on Sunday, down 45 percent from 2016, according to Marketing Land. In fact, this year more ads displayed web addresses (URLs) than hashtags for the first time since Marketing Land has been tracking the trend.

Nah, we don't have an app just like a lot of forums and the amiga community is huge but will never move on... Need email, thats on the web. Steam is also on the web.

Nah we're good.

That's pretty enthusiastic...

Website are decreasing in popularity there is no real argument there but I don't think they are irrelevant think about how many time you have used Google to find the answer to a problem or look up some other information I don't think that web as well know it will die I believe there will always be people looking and using websites outside of the typical YouTube/Facebook/Whatever.

The real question is what will websites/web server become in the future with more and more people switching to hidden networks like TOR/Freenet and setting up Distributed storage systems that are near impossible to destroy.

I've been a little salty the past couple months- but I stick to what I said.

Anyways, while I highly hope and think the herd will be thinned on the web, the http server is only going to increase in use with the native app's reliance on REST services.

Cluster of NGINX servers are going increase and produce more JSON 1/0's for the average user to continue to update their instagram and Facebook status, not to mention, continue to up their "technological data environmental foot print." Hey! All that useless data's gotta be stored on some server which uses power.

I'm being very sarcastic here, like I said... salty.

2 Likes

I don't think TOR and services like it are here to stay. At least the US government is going to do something about it soon.

1 Like

As technology gets better people get better at bypassing it maybe in the future TOR won't exist but I believe something like it will

1 Like

The web is evolving, I agree. But it definitely isn't going to die!
A while back, Google announced Instant Apps ( https://developer.android.com/topic/instant-apps/index.html ) for Android.
Currently we have Progressive Web Apps ( https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/ ) for the web.
Basically the native apps will mimick websites and vice versa.
My guess is that at some point they will merge into one.

I think they'll go the way of early internet BB. Dying out to a similar but ultimately better experience.

Websites will be replaced with apps, that load directly off the internet, similar to websites, but more like instant apps in the android store.

Websites will still exist, but they'll become a niche. A niche that I'll stay with atleast.

3 Likes

These are really cool. I think idea is brilliant

I think the web will technically stay around as an automated delivery protocol for apps but websites will be replaced with apps and HTTPS will only be used to send the information to those apps.

There will be smaller websites that won't be able to make dedicated apps but we might see apps dedicated to their CMS. For example, all Wordpress powered sites might be accessed through an app. This seems unlikely. What's more likely is all major websites will be accessed only or mostly through apps.

This might be unpopular but I actually wouldn't be that upset. Unfortunately the anonymity debate has a paradox. You need it to be easy for people to be anonymous from doxxers who try to remain anonymous.

I know I started this thread with the idea being that the www is going to die, but for a site like Amazon for example. As long as their is enough customers on their website to cover the cost, the site will stay online.

One counter argument is that people don't like installing a billion apps for every little site.

1 Like

I'm certain that there will be a generational decline in website usage as upcoming internet users are getting ever more used to the idea of having data trickle down to them through social media and apps. I, personally, will never use these programs because of DRM issues, but to those who have never experienced anything else, this is what they're left with.

Well here in Norway, our FM radio network is shutting down this year, and being replaced by Dab+ or digital radio.

No mention of books going away though! ;P

Sad day, time to break out the HAM. It was bad when they made mandatory installations into all radio stations for "state of emergency alerts."

Turns out the government had a direct killswitch/megaphone into every fm station in America.

Now places are completely getting rid of all FM, very much looks like an assault on freedom of the press and local news.

People will drop dead before they try this is America.

How is this any different to the switch from analog to digital in TV broadcasting?

That would do it. Someone might be easily willing to have a few dozen apps on their phone but that's still a limiting factor. Everyone can't have an app for every website, even the high traffic ones.

I think the opposite has higher chance of happening (people ignoring websites altogether and only create apps for their services) specially with the ''internet-ialization'' of third world countries where people can't afford/don't own a pc but can definitely buy a smartphone (albeit a cheap one http://mashable.com/2017/01/05/india-30-dollar-smartphone-google-sundar-pichai/#AOx1piG.xkqSS) that suffices 70% of their needs.

That being said, I think right now the limiting factor preventing most people from downloading and purchasing more apps is mainly memory size (Let's be honest, the standard today is 16gb, which is ridiculous for 2017) and data caps (just stupid, moronic data caps).

1 Like