Is the net living up to its original goals?
 

Is the net living up to its original goals?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18672173

The storms in the US and a technical 'leap second' fucked up large parts of the net over the weekend.

One of the primary reasons we have the net is that it was meant to be a 'nuclear' proof way of keeping communications open.

The 'cloud' doesn't look that great either....

What were its original goals? Aside from being able to shoot weapons if some of America got bombed...

LOL - I sneezed while I was posting and snot went everywhere so I clicked the enter button early...

I have edited now....

Thought the net was created for porn, then other people discovered it could be used for news, music and social networking

Unrestricted worldwide access to pictures of cats.

I was just thinking about 'The Cloud' - Its pretty much what the net was aiming for 20+ years ago.

And it seems it does not work....

I think that the public Internet (not the arpanet) original goal was to provide unlimited access to information to the world as a whole without the intrusion of censorship or government intervention.


That dream has been lost IMHO and the information super highway has been significantly reduced to the commercial super highway

What the fuck O.P did you read the article?

Technology is only as good as the people who create, operate and continue it's progress.

Yes, my point stands - It was meant to be bullet proof - Its not.

I have my opinions as to why its not - I suppose I am asking your opinion.

Well, perhaps not yours....

Did the goal posts move when the net became public?

A handful of hosts went down because of weather conditions in the US. I worked all weekend long and didn't notice a thing.

Reddit, Foursquare, Netflix, Instagram, LinkedIn, Gawker and sites that use AWS.

Thats a big handful....