Could the Internet Run Out of Space?

What happens when the Internet runs out of space? Is it possible for the Internet to ever get full, does it have a breaking point can we actually fill it with millions of photos and pointless videos that make us all laugh? Can physics really be defied can space really be unlimited?

These are the questions I have begun to ask myself as the mega-pixels on cameras gets larger and larger by the day and video cameras are now spitting outHD , high definition pictures with amazing detail and of course all these things have to be shared with everyone so they are posted to the Internet.

Not only are mega-pixels quickly going up and HD video becoming more easily obtainable but they are becoming increasingly easier to share on the Internet. A company called eye fi creates and sells memory cards for cameras that are wireless allowing you to easily upload pictures to picasa, flickr, or a number of other online photo storage places. But the thing, is that these cards make it dead easy simple to move pictures off your camera and straight to the Internet.

The other thing making it easier and easier to move pictures online are the new smart phones, like blackberries and iphones. Having a camera built into a smart phone creates more and more people that always have a camera on them allowing them to take more and more pictures. Also the smart phones all have dead simple ways to upload photos straight to the Internet, just like theeyefi cards these smart phones allow for quick dead simple uploads for the Internet.

The next big thing for smart phones is video, which the new iPhone 3gs which has just come out is leading the way. It makes taking and sharing mobile videos just as easy as taking and sharing pictures with a phone. Basically withthe new iphone 3gs you can quickly take a video, even edit it on your iphone then with one click upload it to youtube! Millions of people will be walking around taking videos and instantly uploading them to youtube. How will the Internet be able to hold all this data, can it really be that scalable?

The Internet is just getting bigger and bigger holding more and more data is there a limit to how much data it can hold, will all this new bigger data bog it down? Could the Internet become slowed down form all this data? These are the questions people need to be asking themselves and new gadgets keep coming out. Look at facebook for example them have been getting so many pictures they had to restructure and create a whole new file system for storing and accessing all the photos so they could scale better.

Thinking on a comparative level here, the earth doesn't have unlimited space and nor does the moon; so how could the Internet have unlimited space?