From Wired, the shifting proportion of US Internet traffic:
…the center of interactive media — increasingly, the center of gravity of all media — is moving to a post-HTML environment
(The newsgroups bit gives me nostalgia.)
Presentation to the Joint Chiefs Operations Directorate
November 11, 2022
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I’d rather see a graph of people’s time spent looking at different types of media or using different apps (e.g., mail/twitter/reading news/watching video). As more and more people have broadband and broadband gets faster, it makes perfect sense that video would become higher quality and take up more space. Text on the other hand still the same minimal amount of space. i.e., even if people’s behavior didn’t change at all, you would see the pattern shown in the graph.
More to the point, the information encoded in a 3MB MP3 file is not somehow “equal” to the information encoded in 3MB worth of HTML files. This graph is seriously stupid.
This graph is seriously flawed – it doesn’t take into account the growth in Internet traffic over the past 15 years, it only reports the proportion of same. This article gives a better representation: http://boingboing.net/2010/08/17/is-the-web-really-de.html
surprised NNTP wasn’t used for newsgroups, odd most everything else was using the acronyms & not that. I believe 3rd party are heavy Internet use nowadays, & yet I’m not sure if their API content would be included in Web or general Internet. Wonder if Voice is grouped with Video? Skype, Vonage & other VoIP are high bandwidth use services. Would’ve assumed that e-mail would stay constant or grow slightly, not decline ever.
Boing Boing added some context to that particular picture.