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75% of Network Connections Not From Browsers

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the move-over-www dept.

Trailwalker writes "An article at BigBlueBall.com states that 75% of web connections do not use a browser. IM and P2P applications are used instead." While surprising, this is probably more indicative of how instant messaging has been able to complement and/or replace email in recent times.

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  1. msblast by jbplou · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I would think that msblast makes up a larger amount of the applications with network connections. I work for an ISP and there a still many customers who are afflicted with that virus.

    1. Re:msblast by harmonica · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I think that it is our work as computer-scientists and tecnitians to educate everyone we can

      Most people don't want to know. It has nothing to do with laziness, but there's only so much time that they're willing to spend on computers.

      I'm not sure if there's a solution unless the program / OS part of a computer is more or less read-only (some pre-installed applications, and that's it).

  2. Subject line is misleading by Rick+Richardson · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The article states that 75% of users use non-browser applications to access the internet.

    It DOES NOT say that 75% of the connections are made by non-browser applications.

    There is a difference, and I blame the lack of any sober editors at Slashdot today for this getting through.

  3. Re:Email is on the way out.... by globalar · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "email is dead"

    It might be broken, exploited, less sophisticated, and maybe even not as convenient as IM, but it's still at least as ubiquitous. Also, IM has a lot of conventions which make it often times (not all times) less professional or even communicative. For example, IM stresses ways to shorten words but not necessarily make things anymore clear (or more developed). It's a lot like a phone in many ways. And sure we use the phone a lot - to varying degrees of success.

    Email is just becoming a mainstay of many people's life. And it is very accessible - it really is like electronic mail (it has many mail conventions) and people seem to respond to its simplicity well. Also, the art of writing a coherent sentence, proof reading it, and then choosing a better word or phrase is much more suited to email.

    I just hope I didn't prove my ignorance of these things in this post ;)