The web is dead? Wired article

[Cogman]

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/1

Honestly, I think they are taking the wrong approach of measuring the "deadyness" of something. For example, look at DNS on their graph. It is next to nothing, yet it is still around, and still VERY MUCH Not dead. They are using bandwidth consumption as a measure of vitality, but what they don't take into account is the fact that webservices consume very little bandwidth.

So, while there is a decline in the total bandwidth used for websites as a percentage. The internet is still very much alive and kicking. It isn't dead, it just isn't consuming all our bandwidth (A good thing).

I think they just published this article to get some air time (NPR was where I first heard of the article.) It is a bold claim that is a distortion of reality to those less in the know.

 

[JackMDS]

He had one goal, and he succeed in it.

You talk and post about it (that is the goal).


😎

 

[Cogman]

He had one goal, and he succeed in it.

You talk and post about it (that is the goal).


😎

😛 That may have been the goal, but the consequence will be that nobody takes wired seriously if they keep on posting this sort of drivel.

 

[Homerboy]

Am I missing something? That graph doesn't show WEb traffic DYING or even declining overall... it shows that other services are GROWING (thus making web traffic a smaller piece of the pie, but that doesn't mean it has DECLINED. It just hasn't GROWN as fast as other services...

Especially since browsing the web takes up very little bit of "the tubes" compared to something like streaming video which fills up a lot of "the tubes".

On that note.... duh. Anyone could have seen that coming a decade ago. Horrible HORRIBLE article. I don't know if he mis-interpreted the data or if his data (the graph) just doesn't support his text.

 

[James Bond]

What program did they make that graph in? Super sexy

 

[Modelworks]

I haven't ever liked the content wired publishes. Had a free subscription to the magazine and never read them, they always ended up in the trash.

 

[Cogman]

I haven't ever liked the content wired publishes. Had a free subscription to the magazine and never read them, they always ended up in the trash.

This sort of yellow journalism sensationalism is just insane. I hate it because it got onto a show like NPR which has a pretty large non-tech audience. So making wild claims like this end up confusing a lot of people.

 

[RebateMonger]

I don't get the big deal. The chart says that web use, P2P, and streamed video have become very popular. Services like email, DNS, FTP, Telnet, and newsgroups consume much less bandwidth than streamed video or P2P.

 

[spidey07]

I don't get the big deal. The chart says that web use, P2P, and streamed video have become very popular. Services like email, DNS, FTP, Telnet, and newsgroups consume much less bandwidth than streamed video or P2P.

It's been predicted for a long time now that 85%+ would be video. 20 minutes of video is like 3-4 hours of constant web browsing.

 

[Cogman]

It's been predicted for a long time now that 85%+ would be video. 20 minutes of video is like 3-4 hours of constant web browsing.

As Homerboy pointed out. Just because most bandwidth isn't used on websurfing, that doesn't mean that the web is dieing. All that it means is that some other service requires more bandwidth than the web.

The best example on that chart is DNS. DNS is FAR from dieing. yet, you look at that chart and it makes it seam like DNS died back in the 1990s. Truth be told, it is way more active now then it ever has been. The difference is the fact that it is very light weight compared to just about anything else.

 

[spidey07]

As Homerboy pointed out. Just because most bandwidth isn't used on websurfing, that doesn't mean that the web is dieing. All that it means is that some other service requires more bandwidth than the web.

The best example on that chart is DNS. DNS is FAR from dieing. yet, you look at that chart and it makes it seam like DNS died back in the 1990s. Truth be told, it is way more active now then it ever has been. The difference is the fact that it is very light weight compared to just about anything else.

Yeah. I stopped reading after the article started going into communist America is evil bullshit. Idiot.