Solipsus

After finally finishing my 32 A3 paged Graphic Products coursework, I decided to sit in the common room to relax when a discussion about the internet began. Some of my lovely friends stated that they had heard that a “new internet” was being developed as we speak and that there is talk of “restarting the internet because there is too much junk”.

I found this quite hard to believe to begin with as how would the government, or whoever runs the internet, decide that the internet is going to be restarted meaning removing all websites? Everyone with private servers, or everyone who has paid for hosting would surely loose out? Then to launch a new internet with different, “more secure” code would be ridicolous; millions of people across the world would have to re-teach/re-learn the basics of making a website. Would that be ethical?

One of my friends, Chris, stated “how many pages are there about some teenagers cat on their personal website?” Of course I got quite offended by this. He was implying that all crappy teenagers websites should be gotten rid of. To some extent, I agree with him. How many times do you read blogs/reviews/forums where people are fed up with teenagers making crappy websites and then calling themselves web and graphic designers? On the other hand, I put my foot down and stated that I myself once had one of those websites, not necessarily about my cat because I never had one, but I owned a website which of no relevance and just took up web space. At the end of the day, without that website I would not be on the career path I am now in wanting to become a graphic and web designer, I would still be putting all my hopes and dreams into being an actor or singer when looking at it now looks completely ridiculous.

When I came home, I thought I would look into the matter. Unfortunately I did not come across anything which was recent. I did find some pages however describing how the US and UN had decided to shut down the internet due to the fear of nothing being confidential anymore, but that was back in 2005 - a time where I must of been oblivient to anything but Tibia. If it is true about restarting and relaunching the internet, then I must be in one big deep hole with no light shining in for me to have missed that.

Do you know anything about it, or is it just a rumour?

Ben