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Many people have read the story about the Internet ending in 2012 because of some crap that ISPs will be pulling on all of us. Let me assure you, this is not true; however, let me also assure you that the Internet will end. The Internet will end in 2009. June 23rd. At 5:38 PM EST.


You might be thinking, "But that's not possible; it's so soon!" or "But I would have known about this if it's going to happen in less than a year!" or "But my girlfriend lives on the internets!" Believe me, I'm just as amazed and on the brink of insanity as you are. With the death of the Internet, I will lose my ability to pretend that I'm reading the news when, in actuality, I'm just craving the warm glow of my screen. Without the Internet, I will actually have to start PAYING for music. I can't walk into a store a steal a few CD's; that would be stealing. I'd have to actually use my hard-earned money (playing poker online... crap, I'd lose my source of income, too) and give it to musicians just to entertain me. Either way, I'd have to start listening to CD's. The sound quality of a CD, compared to mp3s, is horrendous. Also, the pain of picking up a disc that large and putting it into a CD player or a computer is more work than most Americans are exerting in a number of hours these days. If the Internet ends, they'll probably stop playing World of Warcraft and will have to role-play in real life. Not only will the lose weight (thus making the average American citizen healthy, which would mean that psychiatrists, liposuction specialists, and doctors dealing with health issues would earn considerably less money, by which that they would barely be making 200k a year), we would have to witness the onslaught of trolls and orcs on our street, protesting for equal rights, yelling, "We're here, we're trolls, omg hai mom!"


Now that you've seen what could happen if the Internet stopped, you may be asking, "By Jove, how might one 'end' the Internet as we know it?" and "How can we stop this madness?" 300 jokes aside, that would be the general reaction. I can assure you, though, we are too late. There is no longer a way that we will be able to salvage the Internet. A number of ISPs have confirmed that, yes, the Internet will die in the next few years, and by my estimate, that will be next year. Back to the question at hand, though. How might one end the Internet?


As Elton John suggested in his stupendous vocabulary, somebody has to shut down the Internet. “The internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff. Instead they sit at home and make their own records, which is sometimes OK but it doesn’t bode well for long-term artistic vision... Let’s get out in the streets and march and protest instead of sitting at home and blogging. I do think it would be an incredible experiment to shut down the whole internet for five years and see what sort of art is produced over that span."


We must listen to this wise, flamboyant man and learn the enemy's secrets. The Internet keeps us from creating STUFF. That's the main reason that they believe that we must shut down the Internet. We must clog up the series of tubes. Above all, we must not blog about it or use the Internet to communicate our messages. Sir John didn't do it, so neither should we.


Now that we know the motive for shutting down the Internet-the lack of stuff created-we must deduct how companies will implement their plans. I came across top secret documents while Google searching for evidence for my foolproof hypothesis. These documents laid out a plan involving literally clogging up the tubes under the Atlantic Ocean. They would somehow dive into the ocean, open up the Intertube, and deposit literal tons of waste that is not biodegradable, such as plastic and George Michael. Another plan involved cutting holes into the tubes. This would mean that part of the Internet (along with, hopefully, Elton John's website) would leak into the ocean. This way, ISPs will indirectly choose what websites we receive and which ones we don't. This also means that our Internet will be even slower than Virgin Media's current package. However, whoever wrote the document did not consider that both plans would end in unneeded British flamboyance escaping into our beloved oceans that are already dying out.


Neither of said plans would work, though. It would suggest government involvement and we all know that the government is run by people who are computer illiterate. If McCain becomes the next US president (thus signaling the apocalypse), he would not know what to do with the Internet. His policies would not involve anything relevant or useful. Therefore, I concluded that the Internet must be destroyed from the inside.


I realized that people like Elton John are actually working for the unknown Internet haters. Seeing as music and stuff in general is not being created because of the Internet, Elton John must be losing money, hence agreeing to signal the beginning of the end of the Internet. His plan seems strangely planned out. This is uncharacteristically thought through for Elton John. First, he states that he is bisexual, then he marries a German female, and then finally decides that women suck and becomes gay. What's next? Technosexual? Oh wait, he has stated that he is technophobic. But that isn't just. All of a sudden, being homophobic is wrong, but being technophobic is all right. Robots have rights, too.


Anyway, Elton John's uncharacteristically thought through plan gave me the first clue that he is working for somebody. Shutting down the Internet for five years? Isn't that the same amount of time between the albums Songs from the West Coast and The Captain and the Kid, both of which received about 4 stars from Allmusic?


We must not blame Elton John, though. There are a number of Internet haters around the world. My theory is that there are companies that are paying each of these people to write anti-Internet opinions until the general public is no longer fazed by them. They become desensitized to hate and don't pay attention to the frequent rumors of the Internet shutting down, although the information is embedded subconsciously. One day (June 23rd 2009, to be exact), the Internet will shut down and nobody will know how. The "how" is then not an issue because people will not have Wikipedia to search for news about the Internet shutting down. Since the company responsible for this knows that people subconsciously were aware of the inevitable fate, they would expect people to not panic. But they were wrong. Imagine the scene as if from a movie. The camera shows a medium long shot of a suburban street. Then, slowly, obese twenty-five year old men emerge from their parents' basements. They are on a raid. They will, together, hunt down the evil company.


These people will be on OUR streets then. Imagine that sight and then try to tell me that the Internet is evil by keeping them in their mothers' basements.


It is too late, though. The unknown company (it cannot be an ISP company, seeing as they want more customers, not fewer. Killing the Internet will surprisingly hurt ISP companies almost as much as it will hurt doctors) has already embedded the message in our minds and is waiting for the right date (June 23rd 2009) to unveil its plans.


The death of the Internet is imminent. Be ready. Be willing. Stop playing Warcraft and go outside for a walk. Life as you know it will end in less than a year.


May India's IT personnel help us all.


They are incompetent so don't count on it.


The Internet ends in less than a year and you are wasting your precious Internet time speaking to IT people. Idiot.

 

Org. Source: internetzopinion.blogspot.com, Sunday, July 20, 2008

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Is the end of the Internet upon us?

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A whole lot of guns are lined up against the Net right now: Net neutrality/two-tiered Internet issues; increasing discomfort over the U.S. control of Internet operation; China's moves to create its own domain system (a possible prelude to a new, country-specific, alternate root system); supposition that, with Vint Cerf and a bunch of dark fiber in hand, Google might be looking to create its own Internet--and of course, there are the viruses, the spam, the scourge on young people that is MySpace, and, how could I forget...porn and pop-ups.

Basically, I'm starting to wonder if the one-Internet-for-all paradigm we've enjoyed so far is about to break and if we can expect a future where we all use smaller, private, for-profit or nonprofit, corporate, and/or political Internets according to our various locations and interests. Let me put it this way: it's all too likely that George W. Bush didn't misspeak when he mentioned "the Internets." The military has probably already built an alternate Internet--if not more than one, and it's looking all too possible that the Net itself is about to fracture into a mess of cliques, privately owned networks, and glorified Usenets.

Breaking what's broken
From a purely technical standpoint, the current Internet architecture has some problems. Many people, including the folks who originally helped build the sucker, think it's just about tapped out in terms of spam, viruses, DoS attacks, increasing numbers of users, and new types of bandwidth-hogging devices (cell phones, DVRs, Xboxes, cars, Wi-Fi-enabled everything). And as a consortium of Internet pioneers and up-and-coming engineers work on ways to fix the current structure, they're starting to eyeball something called metanets as a possible way to let multiple Internets run in parallel, routing communications into ever-emerging protocols that are specifically tailored for, say, streaming video.

Meanwhile, a whole mess of political and commercial troubles face the Net. The telcos, who see the Internet as a delivery medium that they control, want to try to charge content providers a second time for that delivery--first, for using the bandwidth in the first place (the current pay structure), then again for "prioritized delivery" of that content. The scheme is called tiered Internet, and it would create classes of content delivery the way airplanes currently have classes of seating. Companies that could pay what Preston Gralla has so eloquently dubbed cyberextortion would have a better chance of seeing their content delivered in a timely and reliable fashion.

Companies, individuals, start-ups, or nonprofit corporations who couldn't or wouldn't pay? Well, you get less legroom in coach, buster. That's just how it goes. And one of the primary targets of tiered Internet accusations is that big old bandwidth hog, Google. Consider that Google has been buying dark fiber for a while and hired Internet pioneer Vint Cerf to help build a network infrastructure that, realistically, has every chance of becoming a separate GoogleNet, and you start to see that a future fracture is all too possible. And GoogleNet could be just the beginning.

Yeah, so? What's the big deal?
Want porn? Hang out at PornNet. China could build its own ChinaNet and have no more fears about Google or Yahoo indexing dissident speech and making it available to its nicely sequestered citizens, or about blogs creeping in with their capitalist, democratic, totalitarian, pedestrian, or hey, pornographic viewpoints. Parents could safely deposit their children on KidNet and restrict access to any other Internets, while they hang out downstairs and do secure banking on MoneyNet. We'd visit various Internets the way we now visit various Web sites and blogs, but without any outside chatter, interference, nefarious information, viruses, or spam sneaking through.

Each Net will have a different interface, a different connection paradigm--forget about using one browser interface to get to one Web site, unless, of course, you're determined to stick to that old saw, the World Wide Web. (I mean, who even uses that anymore?) Some might be text-based, some might look like applications, some will, of course, build their own "browser" interfaces--and imagine the patent lawsuits that will result from that, eh? Some Internets will be free, most will probably be subscription, some might be invite-only, a fair number will be free but advertising-supported--and that's an advertiser's dream, right? I mean, talk about a targeted audience.

Illegal file- and movie-sharing could become a thing of the past, since it will be relegated to TorrentNet, and once the streams are narrowed to a specific set of routers and fibers, it'll be a cinch to track down every single user. But on the other hand, you might just as well see an explosion of darknets, in which small groups create fast, agile, mobile Internets that are used exclusively for file sharing or who knows what else. Imagine if organized crime could have its very own Internet; imagine if Osama bin Laden fans or terrorists, instead of blathering in Orkut forums for all the world to see and renounce, were quietly building more virulent support in the safety of an unmoderated, unrestrictive, uncritical TerrorNet?

The human condition
In sum, we'd visit, subscribe to, restrict ourselves to, or be restricted to these various Internets the way we currently absorb Web sites. So, what's the problem? Well, for one thing, information disappears and becomes harder to access. Google won't work in the new Net order, that's for sure: sure, they'll find a way to search across multiple Internets, but they'll be locked out of private networks, secure networks, darknets, and pure commercial Internets. The consumer cost could increase dramatically--especially if most private Internets are subscription-based. ISPs would become IsSPs--Internets Service Providers. No one provider, most likely, could offer access to more than a few different Internets, so you'd be limited by subscription packages available from the telcos, or you'd be looking at multiple monthly bills or confusing à la carte choices.

You'd face staggering interoperability issues. Imagine if you couldn't call someone's cell phone unless they were on the same network as you. Suddenly, you'd have that problem with e-mail, with link-sharing, with instant messaging. No more Skype, if Voice over IP works only on networks that actually use IP. With multiple networks to support and maintain, outages would be more common and reliability would dwindle. And then, of course...and you know it's coming...you lose all of the innovation, all of the information sharing, all of the openness, all of the revolution that a single, messy, worldwide, insecure, porn-filled, Wild West, speech-freeing, wonderful, World Wide Web-enabling Internet.

The problem is, I'm not sure an Internet splinter is avoidable. There are already Internet separatist treatises out there on the Web--how ironic. And it's possible that it's just our human nature to split off into the groups and communities that make us most comfortable. Our differences in politics, morals, ideologies, and governments will probably force the inevitable upon us--not to mention our human desire to make ever-increasing piles of money off of our best inventions. Nevertheless, I'm keeping hope alive. I hope we can save the Internet from ourselves. I like the idea of having at least this one thing that we all share, that works for all of us, and that can change all of our lives with just a couple of keystrokes. The Internet is possibly the best thing we humans have ever built. It'd be all too tragic to see us turn around and cannibalize it.

 

Org. Source: By Molly Wood, executive editor, CNET.com, Monday, March 13, 2006,

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10 Ways the Internet (As We Know It) Will Die

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We often think of the Internet as a platform for unfettered global communication, where information flows freely, innovators can launch new applications at will, and everyone can have a voice. But it’s unlikely that our children’s Internet will look anything like what we have now.

How might the Internet as we know it die? Here are 10 possibilities.

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