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Keith Rabois certainly seems to think so. The mainstream, browser-based web has been around for some 20 years now. I like the web, I use it everyday so I want

Keith Rabois certainly seems to think so. The mainstream, browser-based web has been around for some 20 years now. I like the web, I use it everyday so I want to think it will last forever. But I wonder, were people saying the same things about BBS'es and AOL-like portals, or whatever came before them? I don't really know, as I was so young when these things were happening. All things must pass, right?

ctrl 13y ago
The one thing the web has going for it is anyone can really make a webpage and essentially do whatever they like within the parameters of html, css, jscript etc. That's a pretty wide open nert (pun intended). I can definitely see semi walled gardens going up as communities and user services. The benefits can be a greater more controlled user experience. But even that said, web technologies are evolving and the web as a mobile option is still a bit in its infancy (aka you can still get a lot of web pages that look terrible)
__pThrow 13y ago
http://catb.org/jargon/html/I/Imminent-Death-Of-The-Net-Predicted-.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/I/Imminent-Death-Of-The-Net-Pred... Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted!: prov. [Usenet] Since Usenet first got off the ground in 1980--81, it has grown exponentially, approximately doubling in size every year. On the other hand, most people feel the signal-to-noise ratio of Usenet has dropped steadily. These trends led, as far back as mid-1983, to predictions of the imminent collapse (or death) of the net. Ten years and numerous doublings later, enough of these gloomy prognostications have been confounded that the phrase “Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted!” has become a running joke, hauled out any time someone grumbles about the S/N ratio or the huge and steadily increasing volume, or the possible loss of a key node or link, or the potential for lawsuits when ignoramuses post copyrighted material, etc., etc., etc.

ctrl 13y ago

The one thing the web has going for it is anyone can really make a webpage and essentially do whatever they like within the parameters of html, css, jscript etc. That's a pretty wide open nert (pun intended). I can definitely see semi walled gardens going up as communities and user services. The benefits can be a greater more controlled user experience. But even that said, web technologies are evolving and the web as a mobile option is still a bit in its infancy (aka you can still get a lot of web pages that look terrible)

__pThrow 13y ago

http://catb.org/jargon/html/I/Imminent-Death-Of-The-Net-Predicted-.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/I/Imminent-Death-Of-The-Net-Pred... Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted!: prov. [Usenet] Since Usenet first got off the ground in 1980--81, it has grown exponentially, approximately doubling in size every year. On the other hand, most people feel the signal-to-noise ratio of Usenet has dropped steadily. These trends led, as far back as mid-1983, to predictions of the imminent collapse (or death) of the net. Ten years and numerous doublings later, enough of these gloomy prognostications have been confounded that the phrase “Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted!” has become a running joke, hauled out any time someone grumbles about the S/N ratio or the huge and steadily increasing volume, or the possible loss of a key node or link, or the potential for lawsuits when ignoramuses post copyrighted material, etc., etc., etc.