Future of Internet as I see it...

My thoughts on the future of the internet:

1) Companies are becoming more dependant on banner ads, which will be proven ineffective. Companies will resort to charging for anything and everything they offer.

2) People will become less willing to pay for things they can not hold in thier hands, and the numbers companies offering internet based services will deminish. (hotmail as an example)

3) The internet will become a way of getting information, not a way of making a profit. Companies will provide thier own web page, with information about thier products, free hosting will not exist. Some companies will survive, provided they have a product that people will buy, such as forms of media.

4) Search engines will charge for thier services, or become a seperate piece of software.

5) The internet will become more like it was originally intended to be, an information super hi-way, not a marketing billboard.

1. Banner ads have never made a lot of money, it's just that the revenue they generate is no longer sufficient to handle the increased bandwidth needs and costs of today. How any company is supposed to survive without charging for it's services is beyond me. Perhaps you'd like to enlighten the rest of us? :rolleyes:

2. People will pay for things they need or truly find useful. Those companies that don't fulfill those will die off, and new companies will rise to take their place. The hula hoop was great 40 years ago, and hula hoop manufacturing plants kept lots of people busy. Not anymore, the fad has worn off. So it will be with lots of other kinds of products and services.

3. The only people making a direct profit off the internet are ISP's. Companies that sell stuff on the internet use it as a way to bring their services to market, they are not selling the internet itself. Free web hosts come and go daily. They can't support themselves. Nothing new there.

4. This is quite probable, but more likely there will be tiered services (a basic free search, a fee for more advanced searches)

5. The internet was originally intended for military communication, not a public information medium. It has just evolved that way, and it will continue to evolve.

6. These type of arguments are pointless and meaningless stemming from the fact our poor friend Scott is trying to make a living for himself and his family. May I suggest that this thread be closed because debating this publicly is going to accomplish ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. If you have problems, send an email to the webmaster of this site at [email protected] or get lost. sorry for being so harsh but I am sick of all the whining

I_know Mac, but I figure it ain't closed yet...

The Internet is just becoming a different ball game. The marketing and bandwidth now have to meet the needs of the companies. Hardware requirements have excelled the former needs, because demand has grown. More and more households and companies get wired up, thus more opportunities pop up on the net. Pages are harder to support, so outsourcing has become a paralleling commodity.

ISP’s, as stated, will always make money. With high speed Internet changing the pace, small timers are going to fall by the wayside. Some will be bought by bigger organizations.

The solid sites will continue to get bigger, demand greater, and support requirements forced to match. Support is revenue in reverse. But it pays most of our salaries…

It is a new horizon. I only hope it doesn’t burn out.

Well I heard on CNN today that Sony and A-O-(insert expletive)-L are joining forces to popularize broadband and presumably monopolize the 90% of online denizens who don't even desrve to own a computer.
"The Internet" -- the popular info-tainment toy that it become is going to the dogs.
I predict more savvy users will branch off to create and inhabit a new ad-free, useful internet; and the commercial cesspool that supplies lusers with endless flash games and Bonzi Buddy downloads will evolve into an even more profit-driven pile of mindless filth. WE will rarely visit it, but the users in our lives will think that it is all there is. We will let them continue to believe this as it will keep our hidden world pure and protected from gator, real and AOL.

[quote]Originally posted by Stanley_Kubrick:
<strong>Well I heard on CNN today that Sony and A-O-(insert expletive)-L are joining forces to popularize broadband and presumably monopolize the 90% of online denizens who don't even desrve to own a computer.
"The Internet" -- the popular info-tainment toy that it become is going to the dogs.
I predict more savvy users will branch off to create and inhabit a new ad-free, useful internet; and the commercial cesspool that supplies lusers with endless flash games and Bonzi Buddy downloads will evolve into an even more profit-driven pile of mindless filth. WE will rarely visit it, but the users in our lives will think that it is all there is. We will let them continue to believe this as it will keep our hidden world pure and protected from gator, real and AOL.</strong><hr></blockquote>


Yeah kinda and maybe. Tech will always have a nitche (sic???) in cyberspace be it on message boards or on a different service like irc/mirc/any one of the file sharing programs or where ever. Personally I find that the internet is growing in leaps and bounds and I quite like it for shopping, getting customer service and several other applications. I am savy enough to avoid the garbage out there be it in ads or in e-mail (more ads). I don't think the internet is going anywhere for now. Companies will continue to utilize it for their own ends and maybe one day find a way to turn a decent proffit from it. As for many sites that start out free and wind up pay due to overwhelming demand - that's the way of things in the free market economy. We will continue to see sites that are very cool go comercial in one way or another or go bankrupt as they get more and more hits. The days of venture capital are gone with the Dodo bird and probably will not return any time soon if at all. Get used to the new way things because the times they are a comercializin'.

I recently thought of getting my own domain and renting space on a server but after talying the bill I decided to put it off for now. Putting sites is expensive to say the least and anyone who thinks otherwise is misinformed.

My intention was to provide my recent insight into why the internet is and has been sucking *** .