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The internet will end in 2012
Speculation or not but the topic does get you thinking! Apparently by 2012 ISP’s will reduce Internet access to a tv like subscription model, offering access to a small amount of news, entertainment websites. To visit other based websites, say third party (your bookmarks) an extra fee will be introduced for the privilege. The result would mean the smaller websites would eventually shut down, creating the end of the internet? Hmm lets look into this!
Advantages (if any)
Content, limited channels
Content is restricted to official websites, content is then guaranteed to be 100% safe and 100% correct. The down side would be the need to pay for the services, squashing competition which in my opinion is completely the opposite of how the Internet should be. thats about it
Disadvantages
Hackz0rs
Hackers R’ Us! I’m sure it wont take long before someone or something breaks the model and allows users to have pirate access to these websites or website that are not even on the Internet.
A new breed
Whats stopping programmers creating their very own protocol and port which allows websites to be viewed differently to how ISP’s allow you to! Could there be multiple Internets running on different communication methods/ ports.
World Wide!
This would need to be a world wide affair, whats happens when the US decide to limit their population to certain websites, does that mean in another country I could visit the so called normal Internet? Would capping the internet to tens of sites be a breach of privacy or the United Kingdoms right of free speach?
An interesting topic but will all those webmasters out there be wasting their time optimising for the likes of google, yahoo etc. Will google even exist? If so how will their services and tools be used? Untill next time, goodbye
October 16th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Interesting post but its never going to happen, theres no way they could enforce such a rule; the internet is far to complex, and to try and control this would noit only be really expensive but very very difficult also 2012 is only 3 years away, theres no way anything could be put in place by then and if they did then other ISP’s will form that give you complete access to everytihng… Most buisnesses need the internet for them to function, image if this happened then tens of thousands of buisnesses would have to close….
The future of the internet is mobility… over 1 billion people use the internet, thats 1/7 of the worlds population IPv6 is on its way as there are very few IPv4 address left - thats how big the internet is !!!
October 16th, 2008 at 9:44 am
I agree, look at the disadvantages! Its something to think about! Good points to add! I also heard that the internet is running out of ip addresses eek, I would like to see how ipv6 works out, is there an extra octet?
on anohter note, isp can restrict people from using peer to peer software, this is do-able but whos to say someone wont create an ISP that allows full access to the internet.
October 21st, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Vista already comes with IPv6 functionality; a typical IPv6 address would look like this:
2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334 (or 0’s can be replaced with : to shortent it )
Looks quite similar to a MAC address, if you ask me. There are a few websites out there that are using the IPv6 infrastructure already; they predict that IPv4 will finish in around 2 or 3 years time.
Its very easy to resrict people to use most things on the internet, but there are many ways around them and like we both said, people would just change ISP that gives you full access unless the government had a say, but even then there will be other ways, loopholes - basically very difficult to control.
October 21st, 2008 at 3:11 pm
I like it! good comment Mr Chris Branagan! oh what happened to version 5 then? Interestings!
October 23rd, 2008 at 11:26 am
Well i found this information about the mysterious v5;
“In the late 1970’s, a protocol named ST — The Internet Stream Protocol — was created for the experimental transmission of voice, video, and distributed simulation. Two decades later, this protocol was revised to become ST2 and started to get implemented into commercial projects by groups like IBM, NeXT, Apple, and Sun. Wow did it differ a lot. ST and ST+ offered connections, instead of its connection-less IPv4 counterpart. It also guaranteed QoS. ST and ST+, were already given that magical “5″.”
its very interestings about the internet service providings offereing new ip addressings at a much higher 64 bytings