The internet "question"

[McDuke]

Over the last couple months I have read in a couple spots that the way the internet runs right now with tdl's is archaic and there are better ways for the internet as a whole to be redeveloped.

What are some of the other ways these guys talk about? I have yet to read about alternate ways the internet could work.

If you have any info about this or know of a phrase I should search let me know.

Thanks

 

[McDuke]

Maybe I should ask this at a web development forum.

 

[AEProgram]

Over the last couple months I have read in a couple spots that the way the internet runs right now with tdl's is archaic and there are better ways for the internet as a whole to be redeveloped.

What are some of the other ways these guys talk about? I have yet to read about alternate ways the internet could work.

If you have any info about this or know of a phrase I should search let me know.

Thanks

this talk started back in the late 90's already, for the foreseeable future the internet will look the same, companies will want .com's, build sites or maintains their shopping sites and people will order etc

payment solutions always change and hosting technology changes but domains are here to stay at least if its quality and .com

 

[NLP]

Maybe I should ask this at a web development forum.

I do think change is inevitable, but it's hard to predict exactly what it will look like. I think the quickest change that we'll see is in terms of navigation — seamless, pageless sites with greater interaction and a reliance on "swiping" and different sorts of motions to get around. Google glass will determine a lot of this, and I can see 3-D and the z-plane becoming more commonplace.

In terms of domains, they're locators, much like phone numbers. But because they house so much content, I see them still being important to companies for a while. I just think how we'll navigate to them will change.

 

[DU]

Over the last couple months I have read in a couple spots that the way the internet runs right now with tdl's is archaic and there are better ways for the internet as a whole to be redeveloped.

What are some of the other ways these guys talk about? I have yet to read about alternate ways the internet could work.

If you have any info about this or know of a phrase I should search let me know.

Thanks

The real question is how DNS will evolve into performing more useful function than simple acting as an address lookup. There will also be look towards a solution that is more distributed with greater load balance, higher performance. There needs to be a greater resistance to DoS and improved privacy.

A significant portion of the internet already runs without the use of a DNS. In fact, I read recently (didn't confirm) that dark net traffic exceeds regular net traffic.

I don't imagine much will change to the commercial view of the internet. How people get to business information and how people share data aren't one and the same. The key driver will be the need to remove the internet from a centralized authority to maintain the freedoms that were once promised that have been generally eroded.

I'd be interested to read any of the articles you found useful if you could post links here.

 

[McDuke]

"A significant portion of the internet already runs without the use of a DNS. In fact, I read recently (didn't confirm) that dark net traffic exceeds regular net traffic"

Maybe this is what I am looking to learn about.

I was watching a video by shoemaker the other day and he suggested that there are more efficient ways the net could be running but didn't elaborate.

I have also seen in threads here a couple brief mentions but I was unsure of the context.

so alot of the net runs without domain names system so then how does it run? I'll look more into this.

Thanks, feel free to add more info about alternate Internets. I really should have taken computer science in school.

 

[DU]

so alot of the net runs without domain names system so then how does it run? I'll look more into this.

Torrents are peer-to-peer so avoid DNS (though pretty much opens you up to everyone who wants the files you have). These can be combined with VPNs and proxy to make things a little safer.

But it's relatively easy to setup a mesh using routers or antennas that don't connect to the heavily monitored ISP to your home.

I don't know if you remember XO computers - but they came with the ability to connect with each other because that was a feature to enable network connectivity so it's a both a real need for people in general as well as an opportunity for political or social change.

Check out https://commotionwireless.net/ and for the XO

http://www.slashgear.com/xo-tablet-native-mesh-networking-added-with-open-garden-preload-21294454/

To be clear though, this won't necessarily have an impact on the general DNS system that most people use to access commercial websites.

 

[verbster]

Ack! Soon enough someone will pop up the concept that Internet "safety" in all of its forms will only be attainable through complete Internet/informational transparency. The old "if you have nothing to hide . . . " position. About that time (I calculate the year 2084, right after the world has instituted a strict one-child policy), we'll become a world of unique numbers as our personal identifiers/personal DNS addresses with complete read-only access to every other unique address. And before you know it, you'll be awakened in the middle of the night and offered the choice of the blue pill or the red pill, and the opportunity to move faster than a bullet and learn every form of Kung Fu in seconds by remote upload and save the world by fulfilling the prophecy of "The One." Or not.