World Wide Web is dead v0.2
a short set of statements by Clover Wood, 2023
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I am not the first to proclaim that the Web is dead, and I surely
will not be the last. But I doubt people who lived through dying of
the web would see the stark contract between the Web 2.0 alive and
Web 2.0 dead as much as someone who time leaped from '05 to '23.
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A modern browser is a browser with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript, right?
Wrong. A browser satisfying those conditions won't be able to open
very common "websites". Why?
Because those sites are not sites anymore. They are apps. They don't
have a collection of documents accessible by links. They don't give
a predictable response to the same GET request. They serve content
in JavaScript.
They are often written in bytecode for a virtual machine (Wasm),
they feature megabytes of (generated?) JavaScript, and they
use HTML only to manipulate DOM. They might have as well
render everything in GL. In fact, it probably would've been
faster.
In such a world, your browser isn't a browser anymore, it's
a virtual machine or even an operating system.
In such a world, Web is not The Web anymore. For majority of
people, Web is dead.
