Nothing kills the web, at least at a reliable time scope. Just the comfort of browsing and quality content decreases in the "main stream" (not to be confused wi

Nothing kills the web, at least at a reliable time scope. Just the comfort of browsing and quality content decreases in the "main stream" (not to be confused with stream_(social networking)). In the past, there were nice, plain text peer-to-peer newsgroups, plain text chat (IRC, maybe XMPP), (almost) plain text websites, plain text emails. Nowadays, newsgroups are no longer popular enough to be considered a window to the world. People send bloated HTML emails and chat using proprietary services, requiring heavy GUI. Websites prompt for Java, JavaScript and Flash just to show you less than 2KB of text, and run tons of scripts to make you share a link to their content to the social networks, or even just to upvote their content on such. Almost nobody uses trackbacks. What people mean by "killing the web" can be compared to what people meant when talking about Eternal September, but now it got worse, and way more people are in it.