Hold your horses; haven’t we all heard this story before? Since its inception journalists have been running stories that one day the internet will get so big it will implode into itself big bang style, leaving hospitals without equipment, detonating missiles into the air and shutting down our natural resource supplies, all of which fills me with the compulsion to bulk buy canned goods and drill a sturdier lock onto my door – regardless of the sensible voice in my head which tells me that the story is the latest in a long line of utter sensationalist nonsense.
Thankfully, mashable.com’s Sarah Kessler has stepped in fray with a rational article explaining that in reality the current version of IP addresses is running out, not the internet, so while it may be advisable to back up any online files prior to that date I’m afraid we’ll have to wait a little longer for an apocalypse … well, not that long, December 21st 2011 to be precise.
