It's a change that's already in progress, but expect it to speed up as dotcoms run out of money. Fast-changing content will be rarer, yet repeated on a very large number of mirrors. Even now, if you take an Associated Press news story from about five months ago, select some specific text and enter it into AltaVista, you'll find a hundred or so sites repeated the exact same story.

Finally the good news, and once again it's programmers who are the beneficiaries. There's plenty going on at the server end. Last summer, e-gineer found that 70% of the top 130 Web sites used CGI. ASP is well established, and PHP turns up surprisingly often. Yet surely the server technology that's on the rampage right now is Java. Java servlets and Java Server Pages offer great flexibility and are only limited by the availability of programmers to apply them.

So that's it for this round-up of trends. More plain pages, less graphics, less original content and plenty of overworked programmers at the server end. See you at Java nightschool.

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