http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/technology/13net.html?scp=1&sq=internet+networks&st=nyt   This article brings the recent alarm that has been brewing over the past months about the staggering rise of Internet data into focus. Because of flashy methods being used to communicate between people, video and phone (on the internet) as well as the communication of ideas through clips of videos, pictures, movies, interactive gaming, and social networking websites on the internet, more bandwidth than ever before is being used. The alarm stems form research showing that by 2011, the internet demand may even exceed the network capacity; in all probability, true effects would be slower downloading, not so much an entire network crash. But others feel that there may not be such a problem since technology and innovation is getting better and better surrounding the issue of Internet and access to it. Further it is the ability of people to afford and attain tools and technology like cables and high speed networks in order to maintain fast downloading. This is also a main reason why the Internet isn’t as fast in other nations as it is here in the United States. Thus, many believe the internet will be and can be salvaged by technology, and others believe, because of the availability and presence of so many websites, links, videos, games, and interactions, that the high vulnerability of the internet make it susceptible to many lost opportunities.    The association between this article and the class teachings can be seen through idea of information networks, nodes, hyperlinks, and edges. There is a difference between the World Wide Web and the Internet, in that the World Wide Web is built using the technology of the Internet. The web is just an application of the Internet, even though it is the prevailing one, consisting of a virtual network made up of pages and hyperlinks. The pages can be viewed as nodes, each being connected by hyperlinks or edges. Hyperlinks, as in today’s world wide web allow the user to move from webpage to webpage by clicking the text or image serving as the hyperlink. These edges and nodes form the directed graph aspect of its information network whole. As a directed graph, each webpage of node points to another node through the use of its hyperlinks or edges. The Internet has continued to grow so rapidly because of its advancements and also because of the more and more nodes and edges that are being formed around the World Wide Web. The massive increase in activity has caused estimations of 100% increase per year of web usage.  Thus, the dilemma that is introduced, the possible downfall of the Internet, can be directly related to the growth of these nodes and edges. The accumulation of these fundamental web elements has generated more bandwidth use, especially with the more interactive, creative websites being formed. Before search engines, people had to “crawl” through pages and pages in order to find desired information. Since that point, solutions have been made to counter the problem. But, since the search engine formation, so many sites have been created because of the ease to find each website through engines. As a result, the World Wide Web, and the Internet as a whole has increased very rapidly, causing the “fear of internet traffic jam”. So, with bandwidth use drastically increasing, as a result of the prevalent information network elements like nodes and edges which connect billions of pages, society will need to see more innovation allowing for such high volume of downloads and nodes, while maintaining the same downloading speed, in order for the World Wide Web, as we know it, to efficiently exist.