can the internet ever become full?

Mistermeaner

How does the price of of a movie on a blu ray disc compared to its price stored on a hard drive. In pure data quantity terms?

Sapphire

Believe me, sometimes I wish the Internet would become full, given all the detritus that is spouted forth on it. Yes, I know it's helped many to make money, but the increase in communication, with all and sundry staring at a screen and able to post ego-driven nonsense and much worse to a gullible market, is making many people even more stupid (and worse) than they already are.

It seemed simpler (and in many ways nicer) when the world was smaller, which wasn't actually that long ago. Possibly the many downers outweigh the benefits, like being able to access and transmit important information quickly? There are also concerns like security – with so much key stuff being put on the Internet, there is a danger that it will be accessed by criminals, something that could have a serious effect on many (in various ways).

Mistermeaner

Yeah but I used to have call round each of my Friends houses to show them photos of my dinner.

kinger101

The internet? Full? You're having a lau
[#error 405 - internet capacity has been exceeded. try deleting some cat videos#]
[#error 405 - internet capacity has been exceeded. try deleting some cat videos#]
[#error 405 - internet capacity has been exceeded. try deleting some cat videos#]
[#error 405 - internet capacity has been exceeded. try deleting some cat videos#]
[#error 405 - internet capacity has been exceeded. try deleting some cat videos#]
[#error 405 - internet capacity has been exceeded. try deleting some cat videos#]
[#error 405 - internet capacity has been exceeded. try deleting some cat videos#]
[#error 405 - internet capacity has been exceeded. try deleting some cat videos#]

Jonbvn

wymondham wrote: »

or 'free' if you have onedrive......

Hardly "free" given that you have to purchase MS Office....;)

mathsmaster

Given how small it is, I'm surprised it isn't already full.

sequence

You can probably delete 98% of what's on the internet without anyone noticing. Nearly all of it is spam, copy's of copy's of copy's, aggregated content, and selfies that no one besides the person taking them has ever looked at. Like this post actually, would anyone notice it missing ? Nope.

Mistermeaner

sequence wrote: »

.

Mmmmmmm. .

BobQ

Mistermeaner wrote: »

At the moment more and more stuff is being stored everywhere, some gets deleted but most not. At the moment we are getting more and more efficient at storage of data. We are also producing more and more storage so all is good at the moment. However....

In a world of limited resources and at the point where we are at optimum efficiency is it possible we will run out of space? When there is no more silicon to be mined, no more compression and we have deleted everything we don't need..... could this happen?

Is it possible to 'programme' hardware to have virtual storage with such virtual storage having a capacity greater than the hardware upon which it sits?

I read once about how some clever kid had built a 16bit computer in minecraft using 'logic' blocks. This virtual computer could then be independently programmed within minecraft. Bizarre

Discuss

It's friday

50 years ago capacity was limited to hard disks of about 4MB, 30 years ago it was about 100 Mb, in 2000 500Mb was state of the art, by 2005 it was 500GB and today it is about 10 Tb. Why assume that technology will limit storage in the foreseeable future?

BobQ

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Our company has a 'never delete' email and customer-involved-document archive policy.

We estimate it saves us around £500K a year in potential liability with historical contract disputes.

That pays for a lot of storage.

That may be their choice but unless there is a reason for keeping everything (security, safety etc) for ever it is an over-reaction particularly ephemeral information that is of no value to that organisation.

Many organisations delete emails after a defined period (eg 7 years ). Some things clearly need to be kept for longer (eg medical records, legal documents)

In fact Data Protection Law states that those keeping personal data should not do so for longer than is necessary so having a policy to keep all data for ever may contravene that Act and render the holder subject to prosecution for keeping it or not keeping it up to date.

BTW Does the company ever check that its archives are retrievable? Or that documents supplied to it by a contractor are not retained without permission?