Internet is outdated
Internet is outdated; this is what Larry Robert (pioneer of internet) has to say now. Reason behind it is that people are now using internet for huge downloads like streaming moving and making phone calls while internet technology is 40 year old and certainly not built for such uses.
So what I think that there are two kinds of people, one who are aware of this problem and finding a solution for it while some people are making websites even heavier with web 2.0 styled graphics, flashy sites and streaming media content. At this stage, internet needs some big overhaul or a total change.
June 17th, 2010 at 4:26 pm
It’s not so much the Internet (in terms of hardware), that’s at fault, more the protocols aren’t really optimal for transporting video and movies, although they’re capable. The solution is IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6), which not only dramatically increases the total number of devices that can connect to the internet simultaniously, meaning that virtually every man-made object would be able to have an address – but that the protocols would be improved to handle the types of data that we transmit nowadays and into the future. True, though that there is a lot to be said for optimisation of content and doing away with all the flashy stuff that takes an eternity to load