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Web Creators Call Internet Outdated

ElvaWSJ writes "Several networking pioneers are dissatisfied with the Internet's underpinnings, and some are offering remedies to ease the strain that bandwidth-hungry services put on technology networks. Along with other projects here in the US and around the world, numerous companies and organizations are looking to rewrite the underpinnings of the internet. This piece looks at new concerns from old hands at networking, with comments from folks like Larry Roberts and Len Bosack. 'Mr. Roberts's concern over the Internet's infrastructure stretches back years. Even while at ARPAnet, he says he was unsure how long the technology could work, especially since the system didn't ensure that information packets would arrive at their destination. His fears crystallized in the late 1990s when he saw companies begin to use the Internet to make phone calls and consumers begin to dabble in online video.'"

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  1. odd... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    They talk about web creators and didn't mention Mr. Manbearpig... I mean, Al Gore!

    1. Re:odd... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
  2. Wow.. just wow by valkabo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can we please go at least a week without hearing about the internets short comings? The internets my only friend and you are all SO mean to it. He/SHE is doing his/HER best!!! Besides, If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

    1. Re:Wow.. just wow by Culture20 · · Score: 2, Funny

      You're hitting mid-life. Don't you need a faster, more stable, younger Internet with HUGE... bandwidth? Try Internet2, just enroll at a major U.S. university near you. *Internet2 may be restricted to Internet bandwidth when attempting to access Internet sites. Internet2 might be monitored by the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, and the RIAA. Do not injest Internet2. If skin comes into contact with Internet2, rinse thoroughly, then apply a cold compress. If your Internet2 uptime lasts longer than four hours, consult your doctor.

    2. Re:Wow.. just wow by Heembo · · Score: 2, Funny

      Why divorce the first internet? Can't we have polyinternetism? I want it all!

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    3. Re:Wow.. just wow by mfnickster · · Score: 2, Funny

      Warning: do not taunt *Internet2.

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  3. Response by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Web Creators Call Internet Outdated The internet appeared very upset upon hearing this news and responded as it often does to most criticisms:

    STFU n00b
  4. and consumers begin to dabble in online video.. by wwmedia · · Score: 4, Funny

    and consumers begin to dabble in online video...

    he was meant to say pRon?

  5. Re:Netcraft confirms by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seriously, there really isn't anything that wrong with the Internet.

    My junk mail folder seems to disagree with you.

  6. What does Hollywood think? by thatskinnyguy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Internet is like, so last year. Stone tablet and carrier pigeon are back in style this year. All the Hollywood celebs are doing it. You should too!

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  7. Re:Netcraft confirms by maxume · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're supposed to occasionally delete messages from your junk mail folder, for the exact reason of preventing it from becoming sentient. Nice work destroying us all.

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  8. Re:Faster protocols by mikael · · Score: 5, Funny

    Never underestimate the bandwidth of a trebuchet loaded with a metric ton of backup tapes.

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  9. Re:Seems like someone misses being important. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    because there products

    Where products?

  10. Re:Jetsons by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Push button jobs

    As opposed to blow jobs? You are talking about cyber sex, right? Or is there where the Robotic maids come in? I can't picture R2D2 in stockings... and C3PO would be just too wrong for that.

  11. Re:Another stupid "advertisement article" by GeckoX · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mod me up, give me my karma now, and move along, nothing to see here. Well, it worked for you...can you blame them for trying the same? ;)
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  12. Leave it alone! by Belacgod · · Score: 5, Funny

    How fucking dare anyone out there make fun of the internet after all it has been through? It's running out of bandwidth. Packets aren't guaranteed to be delivered. People are using it for fucking video and telephone. Mr. Roberts turned out to be an engineer, and now he's selling flow routers. All you people care about is carving out bandwidth. It's a series of tubes! What you don't realize is that the Internet is just being the Internet and all you do is write a bunch of crap about it. The Internet hasn't updated its hardware in years. It prefixes everything with "www" because all you people care about is WINNING! WINNING! WINNING! LEAVE IT ALONE! You are lucky it even loads you bastards! LEAVE THE INTERNET ALONE! Please! Len Bosack talked about adequacy and said if the Internet was adequate it would connect to underground cables that have nearly 100 times its capacity. Speaking of adequacy, when is it adequate to publicly bash an international communications network who is going through a hard time?

    1. Re:Leave it alone! by MightyYar · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yeah, but did you catch the internet's appearance on the MTV music awards? Yikes! I don't think the internet rehearsed much, but I disagree that the internet was too fat. Oh, and did you see that the internet recently lost custody of its subnets? Sad.

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  13. Re:Netcraft confirms by sharkey · · Score: 2, Funny

    Seriously, there really isn't anything that wrong with the Internet.

    Goatse, tubgirl, lemonparty, penisbird, Tara Reid, the list just goes on.

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  14. Re:Seems like someone misses being important. by Myopic · · Score: 2, Funny

    because there products are completly ineffective

    where are products completely ineffective? i sure don't want to go there.

  15. Re:Netcraft confirms by empaler · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mr. Shine. Him diamond!

  16. Wait a min by Garrick68 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The Internet wasn't designed for people to watch television," he says. "I know because I designed it." I thought Al Gore said that he designed that there tarraweb thingy?

  17. Re:Netcraft confirms by Doug+Neal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Blaming the internet for spam is like blaming pig farmers for low quality hot dogs. Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. Please give a car analogy as per standard procedure.
  18. Re:Faster protocols by apt142 · · Score: 3, Funny

    However, Do worry about the packet loss when that metric ton of tapes land.

  19. Re:Netcraft confirms by Braino420 · · Score: 2, Funny

    In the meantime, what can we do about the low quality hot dogs?

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  20. Re:Faster protocols by zeromorph · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think it is a therapeutical thing.

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