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**Ben** · #1 (**permalink**) 17-06-2007, 09:19

As the flood of data across the internet continues to increase, there are those that say sometime soon it is going to collapse under its own weight. But that is what they said last year.

Full story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...ne/6756899.stm

Some say it's partially to blame YouTube. In one day YouTube sends data equivalent to 75 billion e-mails. I personally don't go on YouTube a lot but by 3PM on a week day YouTube is really slow so it's bound to be using thousands of terabytes each day.

What do you think to this story? Do you believe it?

**arclight** · #2 (**permalink**) 17-06-2007, 10:27

Last year? The experts have been saying that since the late 90's

**ste_** · #3 (**permalink**) 17-06-2007, 19:43

clickonline is so amateur

**eUKhost.com** · #4 (**permalink**) 17-06-2007, 19:44

one should not forget that there are few ships out there laying Fiber in Sea Beds 24x7. Probably we wont have as many problems as much as those Fishes living under water.

**DPS Computing** · #5 (**permalink**) 18-06-2007, 10:48

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Originally Posted by arclight

Last year? The experts have been saying that since the late 90's

I thought they'd been saying it ever since the Internet was first devised!

**Brian** · #6 (**permalink**) 18-06-2007, 22:49

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Originally Posted by DPS Computing

I thought they'd been saying it ever since the Internet was first devised!

yeah, al gore said that years ago :P

**DPS Computing** · #7 (**permalink**) 19-06-2007, 16:56

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Originally Posted by Brian

yeah, al gore said that years ago :P

Al who

lol

**carsey** · #8 (**permalink**) 25-06-2007, 19:05

hahaha.... I highly doubt the internet will come to a complete standstill. Technology is evolving every day and things are continually getting better.

**Alex Evans** · #9 (**permalink**) 25-06-2007, 19:12

Lets face it, the only way the internet will die altogether is if companies don't keep uprating to handle the stress. I can see the issue, but we have so many independent datacentres that aren't interconnected, we have different providers of bandwidth and service, thousunds or more.. The internet is probably the most expensive and biggest live system in the world.

**carsey** · #10 (**permalink**) 25-06-2007, 19:15

Alex, I think you could be right. I cant afford to run my own server so I have to stick with hosting to get my website hosting online. I wonder how much the internet is valued at these days.

**Alex Evans** · #11 (**permalink**) 25-06-2007, 19:19

When I say interconnected, of course they are, thats what the internet is about. But what I mean is, they dont rely on each other and can run independently.

I used to have six dedicated servers and over 200 clients.. Time became an issue and I was 15/16, I ended up having to sellup, don't regret it, I just realised I could make more money working.

**DPS Computing** · #12 (**permalink**) 26-06-2007, 01:41

The Internet doesn't have a value - it is priceless!!

People want to be less worried of an "Internet Overload" and more worried about someone developing and dropping an EMP bomb on us which would bring life as we know it to a stand still - and the technology doesnt seem to be that far away!

Cars would stop, tills would stop, computers would stop, planes would stop, watches would stop, mp3 players would stop, mobile phones would stop, life support machines would stop etc etc - now that is more worrying!!

**carsey** · #13 (**permalink**) 26-06-2007, 10:24

Whats a EMP bomb. They sound pretty scary.

**paul** · #14 (**permalink**) 26-06-2007, 10:36

What I feel the data retention creating a "panopticon" and overstorage so there are chances that it can blast any day.

**DPS Computing** · #15 (**permalink**) 26-06-2007, 17:45

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Originally Posted by carsey

Whats a EMP bomb. They sound pretty scary.

It can't hurt you or me - even if one went off quite close to you (unless you were stood on it - the initial blast is very small) - but for miles and miles around an EMP bomb would destroy every electrical circuit, magnetic strip etc in its path. So your credit cards would become useless and anything electrical or computer based (so nearly everything) would be destroyed.

It wouldn't be damaged so you and me could see it - everything would look the same and the only way you would know that it would have gone off is that nothing works - not your lights, not your watch, not your car, not a plane, not a computer etc. You get the idea

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**carsey** · #16 (**permalink**) 26-06-2007, 19:34

Wow, that seems quite some heavy stuff. I presume it uses magnetic field to destroy everything. Is that correct?

**DPS Computing** · #17 (**permalink**) 26-06-2007, 23:22

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Originally Posted by carsey

Wow, that seems quite some heavy stuff. I presume it uses magnetic field to destroy everything. Is that correct?

Its more of an electronic pulse that floods the air with way more electrons that are normally in it - like thousands of bolts of lightening striking the same place at once. It doesn't have any affect on anything non electrical but fries every electrical circuit in sight!

**Alex Evans** · #18 (**permalink**) 27-06-2007, 00:26

The Americans already have a system in place which can take a buildings electrical interfaces out without having to cut the power.

Its scary and its real, whats worse is theres no real policies on it, as said, could bring a city to a complete standstill and whoever had set it off would get away. (Baring he had a good bike, or something completely mechanical) *french car cough*..

You'll be more likely to see it used in cases of future bank jobs etc.

As far as I know it causes multiple surges to anything live, thus deaming it dead.