Of all the rotten luck! No sooner do I publish my new, fancy, dynamic site than I discover that <a title="Wired Magazine" href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/1" target="_self"><em>Wired</em> magazine</a> has deemed my efforts for naught because the <a title="The Web is dead" href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/1" target="_blank">Web is dead</a>. No bones about it, when the Web answered the knock at its door, the Grim Reaper appeared in the form of mobile apps. And <em>Wired</em>'s got a <a title="Chart of the web's demise" href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/wp-content/images/18-09/ff_webrip_chart2.jpg" target="_self">colorful chart</a> and a <a title="The Web is dead: A debate!" href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip_debate/" target="_blank">debate featuring good ol' Tim O'Reilly</a> to prove it.

Normally I ignore such proclamations, especially from the same doomsayers who (1) publish the article on the medium they declare dead and (2) within the past 12 years, predicted that both the <a title="Push! (Kiss your web browser good-bye...)" href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.03/ff_push.html" target="_blank">web browser</a> and the <a title="The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete" href="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_theory" target="_self">scientific method</a> would undergo similar fates. But the proclamation has sent a storm through the blogosphere, and as a "maturing" Webmaster who started a blog to comment on such things, I feel it is my duty to throw my sword into the fray.
<blockquote>"I'm not dead." -- The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't, <strong>Monty Python and the Holy Grail</strong></blockquote>
Needless to say, I don't believe the Web is even near comatose and, if you examine <em>Wired</em>'s article for a bit, it's fairly clear that they don't believe the Web is completely dead, either. Rather, they assert the Web is no longer the wild west that it used to be. Folks are abandoning their private ranches and settling down into larger communities, such as <a title="Facebook" href="http://www.facebook.com" target="_blank">Facebook</a> or <a title="YouTube" href="http://www.youtube.com/" target="_blank">YouTube</a>. Folks also aren't relying on web browsers as their workhorse of choice; instead, they've chosen, or appear to be choosing, specialized software on their mobile devices to get at their content--i.e. "there's an app for that." Indeed, <em>Wired</em> asserts, the Web is simply becoming one  point of interest on a much larger landscape, something that they call "the Internet". Not only that, the pinnacle of the web's usage, if you believe their graph,

Yes, believe it or not, the Internet, the infrastructure upon which the Web was built, is increasingly being used for other things, such as video and online gaming, while the Web is being abano

Videos tend to be slightly larger downloads than web pages, in much the same way that the Sun is slightly larger than the Earth.