Wow that soon, I guess they should start deleting 90% of the internet then because of most of consists of junk, porn, illegal activity, and websites that repeat themselves over and over again. I guess though there is more to it then just that though, and this little quote says it all or rather part of the problem we could be facing.One second while I faint over that, of course the other part of the size problem is that backbone providers are not catching up to this increase of size, including bandwidth usage as well. What is a backbone provider you ask well its as simple as this definition:



So the next question people are going to ask how much is going to cost? Well that depends on who you ask, Yahoo article says $55-60 billion dollars, and PC World saying $137 billion, $40 billion of that for the US alone. Of course we all know they are not going to invest that kind of money or rather if they do talk about the very big price hike in ISP service and even cable service as well to cover this cost.

So I say start pressing the delete button.


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I believe that they will have to do something major to stop this happening. I just hope they don't touch my website.

<sarcastic>They need to make a second internet. Its the only explanation. They need to start over and make it better. They need to make it a big truck, because this internet isn't a big truck. You can't just dump stuff on it.
The internet is a SERIES OF TUBES!
If we keep dumping all this junk on the internet and it clogs them up. Thousands of gallons of drano are used each year to unclog the internet. </sarcastic> (I'm glad that Ted knows his stuff because I sure didn't know that)

But all seriousness, I don't think they can go around deleting stuff. I'm no network admin, but I know that we are just connecting to other computers and servers, and they aren't going to go hack into others computers and start erasing stuff. If anything is going to happen is domain names are going to perhaps be revoked, and we might even need a new top level domain suffix (or whatever they are called).

This post has been edited by alex7h3pr0gr4m3r: Nov 25 2007, 11:00 PM

I think the only issue on the internet right now is the fact that everything is still using IPv4 when IPv6 would be able to accomodate many more people without need for shared IPs. Moore's law would also probably alleviate some of the issues. In the U.S. there might be some trouble because of an overabundance of connections while companies update technologies in a sluggish pace to accomodate what they can't accomodate if they don't start investing in better, faster, and more reliable-in-large-numbers technology now, I wouldn't be suprised if there would be executive orders forbidding the public from viewing mind numbing social networking sites lobbied by the ISPs so we can keep the internet connections up. The ISPs certainly have the money to do so - they make rediculous amounts of profit off phone calls working on automated machinery. Our bills shouldn't go up that far for them to upgrade the infastructure.

ok so feeling kinda dumb here but not that computer literate, know how to do the things i want to do and thats about it..lol what exactly does this mean for us if the internet maxes out? will we not be able to use it anymore? is it gonna lock up? what will happen?

There are some companies that say the only solution for the internet is to start over from a clean slate, and redesign everything so that it's more reliable and more secure. In other words replace the internet with a different totally new network. There are a couple of research project going on out there one of them is called GENI, I forgot what the other one was called.

Check out this article from computer world http://www.computerworld.com/action/articl...mp;pageNumber=1

Ok, let's think. 1st 80% of this studies are a little bit exagerate (remember the comet that was supposed to collide earth?)
2nd, internet is a connection between computers, like a website. where is a website? On a computer. Is it affecting internet? How? I can't see the connection... And a isp? isn't it stored on a server? and don't tell me that the server is the internet... yet again... connection?!
3rd, if internet is so full, wasn't it supposed to crash?! how many times internet was down?Where's intnt?

lets see... The internet isn't some sort of central server. It is spread out amongst millions possibly even billions of different computers and servers. If all that space is used up then bye bye internet 1.1, hello web 2.0...

The article said that the study is the first to "apply Moore's Law (or something very like it) to the pace of application innovation on the Net", whereas Moore's law was only ment to be applied to semiconductors and not to web application development. So their conclusions cannot be too accurate.



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