London: The World Wide Web is running out of space and online giants now face the risk of going into meltdown in the future as a result.
According to Daily Star, the concerns came after eBay went down earlier this week with buyers and sellers unable to log on.
Analysts are blaming outdated technology for the meltdown threat, saying that it can no longer handle increased traffic from users of smartphones.
Experts say the issue is with the route map called Border Gateway Protocol, which consists of thousands of complex paths through the web sending information to each other and is being extensively used by large networks.
In its short lifespan of 25 years, you have seen the dot-com boom, the rise of email platforms, service providers and conglomerates including Google, Facebook and Yahoo, the cataloging of billions of information points including free access to thousands of books, an endless supply of medical information and, yes, hours of entertainment via cat memes.
In 2000, 5% of the world population used the World Wide Web. Today, that number is 40%, and rapidly growing as mobile technologies find their way to the more remote areas of the globe.
In 2010, the number of web users doubled and surpassed two billion. As of March 2009, the indexable web contained at least 25.21 billion pages. On 25 July 2008, Google software engineers Jesse Alpert and Nissan Hajaj announced that Google Search had discovered one trillion unique URLs. As of May 2009, over 109.5 million domains operated. Of these 74% were commercial or other domains operating in the ‘.com’ generic top-level domain.