Now We Have the Internet, But Why Do We Need It?

ReLik writes "BBC News is reporting on a survey carried out on the statistics of internet users in the UK, 'While the battle for digital access is being won, we now face a struggle to convince everyone the net is worth using' said Professor Richard Rose, of the Oxford Internet Institute. It begs the question why goverments around the world are encouraging everyone to use the internet, but is there really enough of a reason for everybody to need to? Is the internet suitable for everybody? Will it ever be?"

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The internet is a failure.

[Dark Lord Seth]

There, the topic ought to be clear enough. And by a failure I mean that it failed to achieve it's objectives. That includes the objectives set by ARPAnet aeons ago, stating the net should be able to survive a nuclear attack. It can barely survive a few badly written worms and it nearly crumbles when a few centralized DNS servers are attacked. It also failed as an academic network, because the internet is 90% bullshit*, 9% dead links and perhaps 1% of actually useful information.

The internet could use a good hard reset, along with the entire world of computer users.

* Includes pornography, which may or may not be bullshit, according to your state of mind. Even still, 99% of all porn is shit.

Is this a losing battle?

[broohaha]

It begs the question why goverments around the world are ...

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Whoo Hoo!

[Ezubaric]

Somebody used "begs the question" correctly! Way to go, Slashdot!