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I wonder if the main usage of the internet isn't the web as we think about it, but largely facebook, youtube, twitter, maybe some google+wikipedia. People don't

I wonder if the main usage of the internet isn't the web as we think about it, but largely facebook, youtube, twitter, maybe some google+wikipedia. People don't see it in terms of 'websites' anymore.

agumonkey 6y ago
yes I think websites are becoming anachronical at that point.. web will fade into ubiquitous peers for high bandwidth data exchange. messages, multimedia, ar/vr .. the end result will be what matter.
- marcus_holmes 6y ago
  I dunno. I see a backlash happening, people building their own blog sites again. The whole "push to your own site, then syndicate that link to social media" thing seems to be happening more. I'm tempted to creat a new GeoCities and see how that goes for non-technical folks
  - colejohnson66 6y ago
    Isn’t that what NeoCities aims to be (a GeoCities reboot)? Disclaimer: haven’t used it; don’t know how it works.
    - marcus_holmes 6y ago
      never heard of it. Thanks I'll go check it out :)
  - agumonkey 6y ago
    I don't think this will last. It's not my personal opinion or preference, I care few about the modern web but to me .. watching people interacting with computers, browsers and how they use whatsapp or instagram .. I see no value for them[0] into the early simple web. It's like betting against television in the 90s. [0] meaning in the average folk psychology, of course a simpler cleaner web has value, just not to them AFAIB
krapp 6y ago
A lot of people seem to believe that, yet plenty of people have to deal with commercial sites, bank sites, school sites, etc., to say nothing of the third party sites linked to by aggregators. I think people still know what websites are.
- Animats 6y ago
  Yes. When you want to do something, you have to get off Google/Facebook and go to a real web site.
jacobwilliamroy 6y ago
It's mostly surveill- I mean uh... telemetry and advertising data being passed around by bots.
leephillips 6y ago
I think many people still use email.
- devmunchies 6y ago
  email is its own protocol and not related to http and web browsers.
  - leephillips 6y ago
    I was replying to “I wonder if the main usage of the internet isn't the web as we think about it”.
  - perryizgr8 6y ago
    For most people email is just gmail.com or outlook.com. They don't realize that email is another protocol separate from the web. I am talking from personal experience :D
annoyingguy 6y ago
From my POV facebook is not a app on my devices but access via the web, meaning html, https, a ton of java and whatever adopted php facebook uses today. What i don't get about this project is why it should need it's own browser beside for the user adaptability that you could technically do via a browser plugin, not to reinvent the wheel all together. Coming from the BBS world i like this idea however, but will miss the illustrations (read pictures). Will however give it a go.
ksec 6y ago
I think that is the case especially with Smartphones and Apps. The Internet isn't about "Web" anymore. Even Hyperlinks points to "Apps". However Web still has its place in Google, Wiki, and Shopping. The three things has one thing in common in that they need multiple tabs to keep data and Information.

I wonder if the main usage of the internet isn't the web as we think about it, but largely facebook, youtube, twitter, maybe some google+wikipedia. People don't see it in terms of 'websites' anymore.

agumonkey 6y ago

yes I think websites are becoming anachronical at that point.. web will fade into ubiquitous peers for high bandwidth data exchange. messages, multimedia, ar/vr .. the end result will be what matter.

marcus_holmes 6y ago
I dunno. I see a backlash happening, people building their own blog sites again. The whole "push to your own site, then syndicate that link to social media" thing seems to be happening more. I'm tempted to creat a new GeoCities and see how that goes for non-technical folks
- colejohnson66 6y ago
  Isn’t that what NeoCities aims to be (a GeoCities reboot)? Disclaimer: haven’t used it; don’t know how it works.
  - marcus_holmes 6y ago
    never heard of it. Thanks I'll go check it out :)
- agumonkey 6y ago
  I don't think this will last. It's not my personal opinion or preference, I care few about the modern web but to me .. watching people interacting with computers, browsers and how they use whatsapp or instagram .. I see no value for them[0] into the early simple web. It's like betting against television in the 90s. [0] meaning in the average folk psychology, of course a simpler cleaner web has value, just not to them AFAIB

krapp 6y ago

A lot of people seem to believe that, yet plenty of people have to deal with commercial sites, bank sites, school sites, etc., to say nothing of the third party sites linked to by aggregators. I think people still know what websites are.

Animats 6y ago
Yes. When you want to do something, you have to get off Google/Facebook and go to a real web site.

jacobwilliamroy 6y ago

It's mostly surveill- I mean uh... telemetry and advertising data being passed around by bots.

leephillips 6y ago

I think many people still use email.

devmunchies 6y ago
email is its own protocol and not related to http and web browsers.
- leephillips 6y ago
  I was replying to “I wonder if the main usage of the internet isn't the web as we think about it”.
- perryizgr8 6y ago
  For most people email is just gmail.com or outlook.com. They don't realize that email is another protocol separate from the web. I am talking from personal experience :D

annoyingguy 6y ago

From my POV facebook is not a app on my devices but access via the web, meaning html, https, a ton of java and whatever adopted php facebook uses today. What i don't get about this project is why it should need it's own browser beside for the user adaptability that you could technically do via a browser plugin, not to reinvent the wheel all together. Coming from the BBS world i like this idea however, but will miss the illustrations (read pictures). Will however give it a go.

ksec 6y ago

I think that is the case especially with Smartphones and Apps. The Internet isn't about "Web" anymore. Even Hyperlinks points to "Apps". However Web still has its place in Google, Wiki, and Shopping. The three things has one thing in common in that they need multiple tabs to keep data and Information.