This Is Not The Net You Thought You Knew | TechCrunch

This article focuses attention on the non-http aspects of the "web":

This Is Not The Net You Thought You Knew | TechCrunch

True, and interesting that he doesn't really even mention the annoying, failure prone, but highly popular flash websites.

I welcome additions and extensions to what we now know of as the web, but I am suspicious of "replacements".  Too many companies are eager to "lock-in" customers by creating closed (and often flawed/inferior) implementations.  The web is a lot of things, but the most critical is that it is genuinely decentralized.