You’ve spent your day on the Internet, but not on the Web.

Apps are taking over the web one app at a time. Big sites like Google, Facebook, Ebay and Yahoo, are creating or have created apps to make their websites more accessible and popular.

What is an app? “App” is short for “application” and refers to software programs used on smart phones or mobile devices such as the Android, iPhone, Blackberry or iPad, as in “mobile app” or “iphone app.”

These apps you use every day are the new web. They are less about the searching but more about the getting.  They are easier to work with and fit the lives of a specific person, making the internet come to them, rather than them having to go out and search.

Through the immense popularity of its iPod, iPhone, and newest invention, the iPad, Apple has essentially created this market. With tens of millions buying new Apple products, the market for the apps to run on them is huge.

Apps are now responsible for much of the internet traffic, as consumers can now use their phones for emails, picture uploads, Facebook, Twitter, Skype Calls, online gaming, Xbox live, YouTube, iTunes, iChat, Netflix, Facetime and on and on.

In the next few years, the likelihood is people won’t even be buying computers but living off of their tech-savvy phones, iPads, Xboxs, and Kindles.

The popularity of apps is due to them being faster, more convenient, graphically amazing, and without lag.

On the web, one has to type in the url box, then wait for the page and its links to load, but with an app, one touch or click takes you where you want to go.

In years to come, designers will continue to think of new creative ideas to make apps a bigger hit than ever.