In an interesting note from a link on PHPEverywhere this morning, there's an article on DigitalWeb Magazine's website that claims that 99.9% of Websites Are Obsolete.
An equal opportunity disease afflicts nearly every site now on the Web, from the humblest personal homepages to the multi-million-dollar sites of corporate giants. Cunning and insidious, the disease goes largely unrecognized because it is based on industry norms. Though their owners and managers may not know it yet, 99.9% of all websites are obsolete.
I think I'd have to agree with them on this one - it does seem like more and more, the sites that I go to have older or outdated technology/information in them. Web development has kind of hit a wall for a bit, with nothing really that new on the horizon. Flash has helped things a bit, but since no one has really made any kind of "killer app" for the web with it, it hasn't replaced HTML (by far). Something needs to come along and reshape the way that we see the web in order for it to survive. It's just human nature to relax and let things fall into disarray. This is a good read, and I'd suggest it to anyone out there that works in the web as a "call to arms" to work just that much harder to create the next level in websites for the coming years...




