Do You Think The Internet Will Ever "Break"

[Gizmo j]

Do you think videos from places such as YouTube will last for thousands of years?

Or do you think it will become unavailable in thousands of years?

 

[Artorias]

The Sun could emit a mega solar flare that would knock out all electronical systems on Earth. Not sure how long it would take to recover from an event like that.

 

[BoomerD]

The internet broke when it turned into a marketplace for corporations.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I could see a large scale DNS outage some day. There are only a few dozen DNS servers that essentially control the whole internet. If those go down, you may as well say the whole internet is down. The secondary DNS servers such as the one I run for my websites are not really going to do anything if the primary ones are down. ISPs may have caching servers though but this would be hit and miss depending on TTL of records.

There's a million other things that could happen to the internet too, it's actually quite fragile. It's one of the reasons I try to set myself up in such a way that I don't rely on it for anything important. Imagine all the people that won't even be able to get into their house or change their temperature because their off the shelf cloud based home automation systems are not working.

Of course something like a solar flare would wipe out all the local stuff too.

 

[sandorski]

PsychNet will replace it. No Chips, Connects, Protocols necessary. Data streamed into your Brain in such a way it just understands. A HUD suggestion gives the controls necessary to Access and to provide Privacy. Numerous groups know how to circumvent them though. It will be awesome though, no doubt.

 

[Torn Mind]

PsychNet will replace it. No Chips, Connects, Protocols necessary. Data streamed into your Brain in such a way it just understands. A HUD suggestion gives the controls necessary to Access and to provide Privacy. Numerous groups know how to circumvent them though. It will be awesome though, no doubt.

Then the machines become sentient and enslave us in a dream world while mining us for energy.

#The Matrix

 

[bbhaag]

The internet broke when it turned into a marketplace for corporations.

And also the millions of small business that take advantage of it as well. I mean if you're going to single out one type of business you might as well include them all.

And to answer the OPs question. No the internet will never break. It will be with us forever as long as humans exist. Maybe not like it is now but in one form it will be.

 

[sandorski]

Then the machines become sentient and enslave us in a dream world while mining us for energy.

#The Matrix

Spotify plays Welcome to the Machine in a timely fashion.

 

[ultimatebob]

Then the machines become sentient and enslave us in a dream world while mining us for energy.

#The Matrix

I never really bought into the premise of human beings being used for power creation. We kinda use more power than we produce.

Maybe the machines should have put us all on treadmills to produce electricity, like the Black Mirror episode Ten Million Merits?

 

[ultimatebob]

The Atlantic thinks that the Internet was already "broken" by forums being taken over by troll bots posting everywhere:

Maybe You Missed It, but the Internet ‘Died’ Five Years Ago

A conspiracy theory spreading online says the whole internet is now fake. It’s ridiculous, but possibly not that ridiculous?

www.theatlantic.com

Come to think of it, Gizmo is pretty new here...

 

[lxskllr]

I think it was broken by huge conglomerates centralizing power, so "the internet" has become a google and idiotbook duopoly. There's other players behind the scenes concentrating power and resources, but the former two are the big consumer facing players. The internet's /supposed/ to be federated and decentralized for fault tolerance.

 

[Torn Mind]

I never really bought into the premise of human beings being used for power creation. We kinda use more power than we produce.

Maybe the machines should have put us all on treadmills to produce electricity, like the Black Mirror episode Ten Million Merits?

They'll probably go the Digimon route. We'll fall in love with "good" data while "battling" bad data. All while we quietly become more and more subservient to the Digital World.

 

[IronWing]

The ISPs strangled the baby internet when they banned users from running their own servers. That opened the path for corporate domination.

 

[Red Squirrel]

The ISPs strangled the baby internet when they banned users from running their own servers. That opened the path for corporate domination.

Pisses me off that this rule is still a thing. With internet speeds and bandwidth being so large now, it's ridiculous they can't at least offer packages that allow to run servers and drop that rule. Should be able to use the connection for anything that I want as long as it's legal. Charge like 10 bucks extra to get a static IP range or pay more to get an even bigger range. This should be a standard offering by ISPs but they are too set in their ways with their archaic no servers rules that date to the days of dialup and early DSL.

 

[ultimatebob]

Pisses me off that this rule is still a thing. With internet speeds and bandwidth being so large now, it's ridiculous they can't at least offer packages that allow to run servers and drop that rule. Should be able to use the connection for anything that I want as long as it's legal. Charge like 10 bucks extra to get a static IP range or pay more to get an even bigger range. This should be a standard offering by ISPs but they are too set in their ways with their archaic no servers rules that date to the days of dialup and early DSL.

Nowadays, you can rent a server in "the cloud" for next to nothing. It's not as big of a problem as it was ten years ago, where you had to run a dynamic DNS server at home if you wanted your own reasonably priced "home" server.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Nowadays, you can rent a server in "the cloud" for next to nothing. It's not as big of a problem as it was ten years ago, where you had to run a dynamic DNS server at home if you wanted your own reasonably priced "home" server.

That's what I do, but it would still be great if I could just run all that at home. Would also be cheaper and I could setup the back end infrastructure exactly like I want without having to pay more per month. Ex: add more disk space, SAN, firewalls whatever. With rentals you pay extra per month for any upgrade. (disk space etc).

Colocating is also an option that lets you use a server you build so you only pay for the hardware upgrades once and pay whatever the fixed colo fee is, but its also a bit risky as while you do own the server, it also means you are paying for an expensive service call for anything like changing a bad hard drive as you won't have physical access.

OVH/Soyoustart does have very good deals though, my current box is under $100/mo and has decent specs.

 

[Lanyap]

The Sun could emit a mega solar flare that would knock out all electronical systems on Earth. Not sure how long it would take to recover from an event like that.

Bingo!

An 'Internet apocalypse' could ride to Earth with the next solar storm, new research warns

The underwater cables that connect nations could go offline for months, the study warns.

www.livescience.com