What happens when the Internet runs out of space? Is it possible for the Internet to ever get full, does it have a breaking point can we actually fill it with millions of photos and pointless videos that make us all laugh? Can physics really be defied can space really be unlimited?
These are the questions I have begun to ask myself as the mega-pixels on cameras gets larger and larger by the day and video cameras are now spitting outHD , high definition pictures with amazing detail and of course all these things have to be shared with everyone so they are posted to the Internet.
Not only are mega-pixels quickly going up and HD video becoming more easily obtainable but they are becoming increasingly easier to share on the Internet. A company called eye fi creates and sells memory cards for cameras that are wireless allowing you to easily upload pictures to picasa, flickr, or a number of other online photo storage places. But the thing, is that these cards make it dead easy simple to move pictures off your camera and straight to the Internet.
The other thing making it easier and easier to move pictures online are the new smart phones, like blackberries and iphones. Having a camera built into a smart phone creates more and more people that always have a camera on them allowing them to take more and more pictures. Also the smart phones all have dead simple ways to upload photos straight to the Internet, just like theeyefi cards these smart phones allow for quick dead simple uploads for the Internet.
The next big thing for smart phones is video, which the new iPhone 3gs which has just come out is leading the way. It makes taking and sharing mobile videos just as easy as taking and sharing pictures with a phone. Basically withthe new iphone 3gs you can quickly take a video, even edit it on your iphone then with one click upload it to youtube! Millions of people will be walking around taking videos and instantly uploading them to youtube. How will the Internet be able to hold all this data, can it really be that scalable?
These are the questions I have begun to ask myself as the mega-pixels on cameras gets larger and larger by the day and video cameras are now spitting outHD , high definition pictures with amazing detail and of course all these things have to be shared with everyone so they are posted to the Internet.
Not only are mega-pixels quickly going up and HD video becoming more easily obtainable but they are becoming increasingly easier to share on the Internet. A company called eye fi creates and sells memory cards for cameras that are wireless allowing you to easily upload pictures to picasa, flickr, or a number of other online photo storage places. But the thing, is that these cards make it dead easy simple to move pictures off your camera and straight to the Internet.
The other thing making it easier and easier to move pictures online are the new smart phones, like blackberries and iphones. Having a camera built into a smart phone creates more and more people that always have a camera on them allowing them to take more and more pictures. Also the smart phones all have dead simple ways to upload photos straight to the Internet, just like theeyefi cards these smart phones allow for quick dead simple uploads for the Internet.
The next big thing for smart phones is video, which the new iPhone 3gs which has just come out is leading the way. It makes taking and sharing mobile videos just as easy as taking and sharing pictures with a phone. Basically withthe new iphone 3gs you can quickly take a video, even edit it on your iphone then with one click upload it to youtube! Millions of people will be walking around taking videos and instantly uploading them to youtube. How will the Internet be able to hold all this data, can it really be that scalable?
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It can hold
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02/09/2010
The internet is not one whole thing, the internet is not just 1 computer, it is several computers(servers) working together. For example, youtube does not have 1 computer, it has several hundred, and when they all get over-loaded, they buy, and add new ones to allow more speed, and more storage.
As time goes by, it will be harder to manage all this data, but it should never run out.
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