I think that i'll start to be concerned the first time it crashes. Till there i'll sit and enjoy this miracle of life

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I think the Internet could max out some time in the future, but I don't think it will crash or something. When and if the Internet will max out then the cost will become to great; bandwidth will become more expensive and so the rapid growth of the Internet will halt. The Internet will crash when civilization will crash... it may stop growing as it does today but it won't simply crash. But as the Internet grows so will the technology... optic cables will be replaced by something better and the costs will go down. Of course that will not e enough to compensate, but it should give us more time.


On a small scale you are right, but the Internet is so much bigger. When you access a server from the USA and you are in Europe it is much more then a simple UTP cable. The costs skyrocket fast. Not to mention some connections are made by satellite. That is why bandwidth is so expensive... In short we aren't wiring as much as our traffic needs. And when request is larger then the offer the prices go up... Basic market economy. So the Internet won't really max out but it will become to expensive to grow...

 

 

 

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I would not be surprised if the governments of the world try to shut it down, after all, it was originally only for military use and NOT for civilian use.

No website is safe.

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huh, by that time we'd be saying... 'Hey, remember back in the old days when we had those 'terabyte' hard drives?' *laughs*
And by then, each one of us will probably have a direct optical fibre connection to the local telephone exchange... we'd have 3.5" HDD with space of over 10TB and the ISPs would always be getting cheaper, this is just like the year 2000 robot rebellion thing... and the internet is NOT a giant server, it is spread out amongst millions of computers and servers, those computers and servers are what keeps the internet alive, but the problem is... Bandwidth, its what keeps the internet together.

Maybe in 5-10 years almost everyone in the world would have access to the internet, and we would need ISPs that can actually handle all the request, there are two main solutions... Have giant ISPs that can afford anything and has almost total control of the world's internet so they would have the money to upgrade everything and turn everything into fibre optics (not recommended) or there is thousands of little ISPs that control maybe a suburb or a small part of a city (recommended), because then nobody will ever have total control of the internet, and also will allow a lot more bandwidth...

The chances of this happening are almost impossible, we are a lot more technologically advanced than you might think (think about it, we have access to plasma shields (yes plasma shields), rail guns (yes rail guns like the ones in Stargate and CNC (slightly different though)) and much much more...

We'd evolve (technologically) fast enough to compensate for our needs although the most dangerous thing for humanity is our population growth, we'd soon run out of space to build outwards and then we'd have to build up, if NASA doesn't get those genetically modified bacteria on mars and start Terra-forming it so it could become a 'farming' world then we'd be screwed if Earth even remotely ends up like 'Coruscant' or even worse 'Holy Terra'

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that would be the day but i think its not true. this could be just another y2k bug ( anyone remember this one ) ohh scarry

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I don't see how this even possible? How can the Internet crash when it is a connection of millions of servers. Of course with that large amount of space being taken up. I am not surprised this could happen though. Of course taking down useless websites like porno sites and illegal websites would probably take out a third of that space. But the Internet will never max out.

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