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DNS Inventor Predicts Future of the Internet
afra242 writes "BBC News has an interesting article which discusses what Dr Paul Mockapetris, the creator of DNS, thinks about what the Internet will be in the near future. He states that currently, we are in the Bronze Age of the Internet and phones will be phased out completely, to be replaced by web addresses."
If this is the bronze age of the Intarweb, Slashdotters represent the Beaker People.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
... catch you dialing up www.talkwithhotbabes.com - only $4.95 per minute!
The internet will replace your telephone, television, electricity, water, gas, and sewer. Rather, everything will come and go to and from your house through a single "big pipe". It will be a marvelous future...
Unknown host pong.
Next time people ask my phonenumber I'll tell them "phone@jawtheshark.com" or if they want my cell it'll be "gsm@jawtheshak.com". Now, I'll just have to wait until the telcos comply with that scheme ;-)
I predict your first calls on these will be from spammers.
#!/usr/bin/english
I believe in the distant future, humans will be able to use the internet to order pizza and HAVE IT DELIVERED to their homes. I know this may seem hard to believe, but the children of the future will never have to suffer a world without pizza and the terror of growing your own tomatoes or the horror of kneading dough.
Phony McRingRing: I'm here to explain why the convenience of one area code in Man's Voice: -Your Town- has been replaced by the convenience of two area codes! ... Scientists have discovered that even monkeys can memorize 10 numbers. Are you stupider than a monkey?
Wiggum: How big of a monkey?
"There is no spoon." - The Matrix
If you have to call the goatse.cx guy, for goodness sake don't be looking at your cell phone screen when he answers.
There are 01 kinds of cars in the world. The General Lee, and everything else.
I know that entirely too many people believe their entire "Internet" is their homepage... I would venture to say that most people get their information from a handful of sites and don't bother to remember much other than google.com or yahoo.com.
You mean there is more to the internet than Slashdot?
"What's your phone address?"
"Oh, it's vee oh tee pee colon slash slash U S dot florida dot 1974 dot colon twelve colong twelve slash cryptic spawn, all one word."
"Uhh... ok, nevermind."
If you had nuts on your chin, would they be chin nuts?
"In the future, the Internet will be twice as fast, ten thousand times larger, and so expensive only the five richest kings in Europe will own it!"
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
so, the next question is, are we going to evolve into Battle-Axe People?
It would certainly satisfy my Dungeons&Dragons fantasies...
the mac addresses will start with 029A.
That type of thing would freak alot of people out.
> He states that currently, we are in the Bronze Age of the Internet
We are? Well, *somebody* needs to pony up 1000 food and 800 gold to get us into the Iron Age. I wanna build a Wonder, here!
Chris Mattern
Quick, think of your best friend's name. Now, quickly, think of the name of the street your best friend lives on.. Couldn't do it? I didn't think so. I don't even know what steet my DAD lives on, and I visit him regularly. I know how to navigate to it but I've never paid attention to the name.
I'm guessing that you're not in charge of the Christmas card list then?
It's called Directory Assistance.
And I still enter IPs
DNS was silly anyway...
The Neo-Bohemian Techno-Socialist
they would have instant access to a giant wealth of information and education.
"OK. Now we're going to learn how to properly prepare food. Could you take that out of your mouth? Thats you mouse. Mouse. See, you just move your cursor, cursor, here and... well... let me just do that for you. See, we're going to use this browser, browser, and go to Google. G-O-O-G-L-E. Its a search... No... Take that out of your mouth, please. Right. Mouse. Thats your mouse... Ah, screw this."
Funny, I get emails from self-appointed hot chicks all the time, thank you very much.
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More pr0n.
More Warez.
More Spam.
Less Lawrence Welk fan websites.
Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
Sort of like national identity or tax numbers; get a URL at birth to last you your life. If only the system would change every few years ...