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So what? Slice and dice the baloney any way you want to, users want what they want by way of cyber/electronic services.
This is very much on parr with the internet is killing books. Those that want to read books will, and those that prefer Kindle will kindle.
Silly to lament change.
This chart is very misleading in that it represents only percentage of total bandwidth. The total amount of data transferred was not constant over time, its increasing. If they showed web traffic total data transferred v. time, I’d wager it is still increasing.
A more telling chart would be total data transferred by protocol per person vs. time. That would show how much data each user “consumed” and how that has changed.
George==I thought the same thing and then thought all that bandwidth is about video and/or p2p. I don’t think bandwidth is much of an issue in doing a google search?
Just wait until tele-sex technology improves.
The article suggests that going from one app (the browser) to many apps in order to access the same content is somehow better.
But it seems to be better only for the app developer or the content provider.
The end-user is now stuck with a dozen apps to manage. Just look at all the iPhone “apps” which are basically just web-sites that have been modified to fit the iPhone screen.
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Remember what IM was like a decade ago. For some reason people want to go back to the same fractured infrastructure.
But is it still 80% porn?
George is right. While web pages may be decreasing as a percentage of bandwidth it doesn’t mean that there is less WWW use if the TOTAL bandwith used is increasing.
Let’s face it if I download an HD movie from Amazon.com to my TiVo I’m probably using more band width for that single 2 hour viewing than I used in the if I spend the other 166 hours in a week looking at web sites.
#7 Pedro: PCMag.com is working fine on my machine. In fact, there’s a new John C D column dated today.
You must be running the wrong apps.
BS! The chart and article doesn’t address growth or decline of the web, it only indicates expansion of the network into new areas. To show if the web portion is dying you would have to plot the volume of web users over time, as opposed to the ratio to growth in other areas.
Not a model for me, I don’t want Apple controlling what I do by either accepting or rejecting Apps give me the world wide wed any day.
Please explain to me how proportioned traffic use has anything to do with growth or decline.
If say a grocery store started selling porn to increase its traffic, and at one point 100% of its traffic was for grocery sales but they only had 10,000 customers a week. Then, when they introduced porn into their store suddenly 90% of their traffic was for porn and 10% was for groceries, but their customers had increased 10-fold… and their grocery sales also increased just out of proportion with their sales of porn.
So yeah. Video(ie porn) is huge today, but that doesn’t mean it’s not drawing more people to spend more time on the web to do other things as well.
Also, isn’t everything we do… web-based. When did the web simply mean HTML pages in the browser? Isn’t most of the video that we consume online in the browser… on a webpage?
Why don’t grocery stores sell porn???
Looks like the author doesn’t understand math. The web isn’t dying. The percentage of bytes for web traffic is down because video is up. But video is big and the total pie has grown. I’d bet serious money that web traffic is actually up.
http://tinyurl.com/web-perspective
If this chart represents reality, then Alexa’s website ranking is completely wrong…
What slow moving giant wrote this propaganda piece? (again)
Only two things can “kill” the web: Bullchit government politics and de-re-regulations. (and the masses allowing the above to happen) or a complete “frying” of its infrastructure (by whatever favorite doom&gloom scenario you like to get sucked into) -everything else is just a reflection
of its evolution.
I’d like to see the same graph across different countries..that would be a more telling “story”
An interesting data point is the apparent “choke” initiated in the year 2000 on the “user generated” side of the net.
(I wonder how this graph would align with policy & legislation that has been enacted during the same time span)
Back in ’96 I wrote as the main “blurb” on my crusty old website, that if the net were ever to become “tamed, controlled, regulated, or CENSORED, we will all die a self deserving death of ignorance.
-while it is easy to see this happening more and more everyday, I sincerely hope the masses “snap out of it” in time and prevent this from ever being fully realized.
-s
When will we get an iPhone and Androis DU app then?
If the web is dead why am I still using the web to get to this?
I want my apps John! They said I need them.
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People insist on free illegal downloads, making things slower for everyone else.
#19: Holier than the Pope huh?
apparently DNS has been dead since the 90’s
I completely get the graph.
People don’t want to read text, as the web mostly existed in 1996.
People don’t want to look at static pictures, as the web mostly existed in 2001.
People want an all video web.
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and MS created Windows MEDIA for what reason?
Being able to watch ANYTHING you want, from around the world, AT any time you want, is a killer feature.
the problem in the USA, MOVE and MUSIC CORPS. RIAA/MPAA are fighting tooth and nail, to KEEP the rights to music in the CORPORATE HANDS.. NOT to the creators.. THE CORP.
Pedro I typed in pcmag.com into my Opera browser and also got a redirect to mobile. And I don’t think I have ever used Opera for that site before.
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I don’t get that redirect. I get to the regular site with Opera.
I have v10.60. No prob here.
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In 2000 most people on line were still using dial-up. Heavy apps, especially video, were not user friendly. After broadband came common video took off and high bandwidth applications such as WoW started demanding even more bandwidth.
Our use of the internet, including the WWW, has grown immensely since 1995. Then, few homes even had a computer, if anyone here remembers the power of a Pentium Chip with 16 Megs memory and a 250Meg HD. Today most homes have multiple computers, broadband, and savvy users. Use of text has increased to the point that most newspapers and magazines are either going under or facing very hard times.
Yet, since I seldom view videos I could be wrong, is you still need a browser to access these sites to get your video.
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Using Opera 10.10 I too was redirected to the mobile site. But then FF is my main browser.
Chrome doesn’t have a problem.
Your conclusions are all wrong. This chart is a logarithmic scale!!!