A dirty secret is worrying web engineers across the world.
Because of the utter explosion of Social networks and 2.0 type sites like Facebook, MySpace, You Tube, and not to mention the proliferation of blogs, and blog communities, well the web is simply running out of space and bandwidth. This despite Moore's law of space doubling every 18 months. Justin Bateman of the Internet Institute's WSA said in a recent interview:
"We simply are not keeping up with the webs growth. There are 120,000 new weblogs being created worldwide each day. That's about 1.4 blogs created every second of every day. We either find a way to expand or we will need to limit Internet use and IP distribution. Serfs Internet simply cannot serve us in the new Century."
This found its way into Congress just recently as Representative Colingsworth asked for a preliminary investigation, calling this "the silent crisis haunting the World Economy."
So it seems that not only is there a skinny pipe and space problem, but as Bateman says, we are running out of ip numbers. This has been an issue for years. And it has been thought we would have to increase the ip addressing system from its current aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd to an additional "e block". Apparently this will still not be enough as Bateman eludes.
For the non-technical you can think of the Internet IP system like an addressing system we live by in the real world. State.County.City.Home address
However, Johan Lee a mere teenager from the University of the Urkrain has devised a way that literally doubles, maybe even triples the capacity of the web. OVERNIGHT! The patent is pending.
However, news leaks from First Day of the Fourth Month Magazine says that Johan's system is simple. He has found a way to "ghost" the net. Creating a Virtual Pipe, a Virtual storage system, and those pesky ips. He simply reverses the numbers. Web 3.0 is almost here.
The Magazine has gotten its hands on the original schematics submitted by Johan to the ultra secretive Ukranian Patent office. And displays them in the April online issue this month. There is a very large section showing how this plan will forever change the way real estate is marketed. It promises to make SEO a thing of the past.
If you haven't figured it out, the above was made up by yours truely in honor of April fools day. 
There are some cool fools out there on the web today. GMail is letting us send email from the past:
- While Britain's Daily Telegraph printed pictures of penguins apparently flying to the Amazon, while many papers ran a spoof story saying luxury car maker BMW had invented a model that electrocuted dogs which tried to relieve themselves against its wheels.
- Nicolas Sarkozy is to undergo stretching treatment to add five inches to his height so he can stand as tall as his model wife. The technique involved is said to have been developed by Israeli academic Professor Ura Schmuck, while the paper also quotes French spokesman Luc Bigger, who said Sarkozy would have the treatment at the Poisson d'Avril centre in Geneva.
Electric shock technology unveiled in the latest BMW should ensure no peeing poodle feels too cock-a-hoop after cocking a leg.
