The Web we use

Think about how the internet has changed and is changing over the years. When it started it was more using the browser and was used to share information through static web pages.

Then it started slowly changing and internet commerce came in to existence where bank transactions, share market dealing, purchasing started happening over the web. This is where the internet boom got created and overnight millions of companies mushroomed out and died quickly. The companies who are having strong fundamental business plan survived.

Offcourse, Google changed the internet habits and established the concept of availability of information through searching, thus making information more accessible.

But, now think about a typical day today. We use a Facebook or Twitter application to keep in touch with friends, read mails through a push mail application like Blackberry, iPhone etc, use news aggregator to keep yourself updated about happenings around the world, watch a video on Youtube on a special application, download a song of movie using Torrent, play a game of online scrabble on the iPad, make a skype call on WiFi phone, use Blackberry or other device to quick chat using instant messaging system.

All these used the Net but not once used the browser to do it. You are using closed application which might actually piggyback on the internet but don’t use the browser to do any of these. Actually, thus we are killing the web!! It is estimated that at one time, accessing the Net was a 90per cent web browser job. Today it is less than 40 per cent (This is as per an analysis)

Thus the web as we know is dying very fast only to be replaced by the web that may just keep evolving and probably might last longer.