Now that the number of Internet users globally has exceeded 1 billion, there are worrying reports of an asylum seeker tabloid style debate paranoia emerging: no more users, the Internet is full in fact.
Well, not in fact at all, there is plenty of room. I tested this theory myself by hooking a new laptop up to it and discovered it worked quite well. Indeed, I currently have four computers, one smartphone and streaming media device all online at the same time and none of them have fallen off as of yet.
But yet there are still ‘some people’ who worry that the Internet is reaching capacity, worry about the US ‘ownership’ of the Net, and worry about how we are going to deal with the next billion users to arrive. Those people are a strange breed known as network engineers, and they are building another Internet. You can read more about their unlikely adventures at the coalface of the alternative Internet at PacketExchange.