{"id":1687,"date":"2009-10-14T13:33:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T17:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2009-10-14T13:33:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T17:33:52","slug":"the-internet-is-about-to-die-literally-die-ars-technica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/the-internet-is-about-to-die-literally-die-ars-technica\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet is about to die. Literally die! &#8211; Ars Technica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><in 2007, Nemertes Research released a dire report on Internet traffic. By 2010, it said, the 'exponential' growth in demand for bandwidth will butt up against the 'linear' investment in networking technology, and that whole Internet thing you've come to know and love will start experiencing 'brownouts or snow days, during which performance will (seemingly inexplicably) degrade.'\n\nBy mid-2009, this certainly seemed implausible. Millions of people now stream Netflix on-demand video to their computers and TV sets, YouTube has added high-quality options to its videos, and Hulu's launch showed that ad-supported Web video could be hugely popular. Despite the growth in video (which is usually pitched as the thing that will bring the Internet to its knees), 'Internet snow days' were about as likely as real snow days in Havana.\n\nWhich is why it was surprising to see Nemertes President Johna Till Johnson double down on the doom-mongering in a May 2009 column for Computerworld called 'The Internet sky really is falling.' The article's point was largely that 'we were right' because YouTube has 'recently announced it's discontinuing video delivery to certain geographies due to&mdash;ahem&mdash;lack of access capacity.' (We have no idea what's being referred to here, but it's certainly not related to anything happening in the US, Canada, Europe, and other places with good Internet infrastructure.) Also, ISP usage caps prove that there's some kind of bandwidth crunch and IP (both v4 and v6) are doomed.\"<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/news\/2009\/10\/the-internet-is-about-to-die-literally-die.ars?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=rss\">View the rest of the article at Ars Technica &#8211; The Internet is about to die. Literally die!<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/in><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[45,65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->