Question: Can the world wide web run out of webspace?

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Answer #1:

internet will become more significant in the crisis

Answer #2:

The storage cost has dropped significantly - 1000GB = AUD$150 or less?

Google for Internet 2; countries like South Korea / Japan / Singapore has almost 1GB per sec

Advertisement revenue would drop, and only the biggest and meanest could survive; google for "google buys doubleclick"

Answer #3:

Simply no because its always expanding with larger hard drives, powerful cpu's and faster internet connections.

Answer #4:

No

The web is made up of millions of computers and has room for many more. It does not need advertising to run, that is just one way for some people to make money, there are others.

Just because there are no buggy whip manufacturers around any more doesn't mean the computer manufacturers aren't making computers. [abstract, isn't it?]

Answer #5:

This is deep. The www. (world wide web) will not reall

Answer #6:

Well, you have to look at the whole picture here...I mean technology has come a long way in just a few years!

Micro circuits are no longer just surface mount components. Processors are tinier and have 4 times the capacity that they once did! (A quad processor for computers today and an 8 processor in the works!)

Cell phones use to be a thing of future generations and have come a long way too! Now capable of vast amounts of information stored on tiny memory cards!

Now the internet or World Wide Web, is being sent generations ahead too. Computers are faster and information is sent and recieved faster and changes so rapidly it sometimes seems hard to keep track of...

Here comes the data storage warehouses and more memory capable terchnologies! Larger hard drives in half of the space they needed B4!

So, No, the internet is not threatened by the economy or technology. It is growing still and will continue to grow at an affordable rate to technology. For it feeds more techno. It breeds more techno. And it is an advancement to mankind's developement!

It will not fall, as we continue to monitor it's progress and develop more and more advanced methods for our information and technologies!

Hope this helps!

Answer #7:

The capacity to store information is to all intents and purposes - limitless, but the internet does face some huge challenges.

The phone lines, cables, transmitters and satellites which pump information between computers are limited in their capacity to do so.

Think of the internet as a huge reservoirs of information connected by pipes. The reservoirs can be as big as you like, but the pipes carrying that information are severely challenged, because as you rightly point out, people are trying to pump more and more information through them particularly in the form of video.

What this means is that the net is prone to big slowdowns as too many people turn on their taps, and the pipes simply cant flow information at worthwhile speeds.

Living in Australia, you will notice this effect in a big way, as the main datacentres of the US, Europe and Asia compete for limited space over pacific and transatlantic cables.

Part of the drive in Australia now is to improve the quality of pipes (initiatives like 3G wireless, fibre to node and DSL are all aimed at doing this, and are currently out to tender, to be paid for by the future fund).

The big pipelines that run internationally are also being constantly upgraded, using money from joint ventures. Telstra is a major player, and it is for this reason that Optus has to piggyback on Telstra, and all the arguments about monopolistic practice are raising their heads.

The situation is largely mirrored internationally, except that in Europe, Asia and the US the pipes between big data centres are generally very good, but the minor arteries connecting the reservoirs to homes and businesses are under immense stress.

The ability to carry a volume information from one place to another in a certain time is called Bandwidth. This is what is under stress. When there is too much demand for bandwidth between the supplier of information and the person requesting it, things simply slow down or grind to a halt.





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