Memel

Does this title seem quite cryptic? Here I'll try to decrypt it.

I remember, in early 90-ties, Linus Torvalds told a great phrase. I don't remember it exactly, but he told something like this:

We don't need any kind of backups anymore, since there is an Internet. 1000s of FTP servers are constantly doing backups of my Linux system pretty well...

That quote went rather unnoticed so far... Probably I was one of few, who took it for serious. Meanwhile, the recent events show us that this starting to be a reality. Particulary with new Google browser. Most of JRM (J.Random Men) may think that this is just "yet another Web Browser". And it may look like that...

Day 1.

In the beginning it was OS... OS worked on a single computer (or mainframe) and it was Ok. All Powers of Universe (CPU) was concentrated within small separate boxes, and everyone could have a little of that power in their working room or even at home. One near-god called Moore has created a Growth of Power, and since then the Power had double-increased ones and every 18 month. Another semi-god called Gates has created a conglomerate of Computer and OS and everything went Ok until...

Yes. It is Google that broke the rules. To be fair, before that there was another sub-god(s) living in CERN who created Internet. In fact, that was a side effect of trying to create a document publishing system, but who cares...

Day 2.

Google created the Web Browser. Did him? No. Not really. Not at all! There were other small and big Gods who been creating web browsers all the time before. So what in real did Google created? None! Nothing! To be more precise - Nothingness!!! (See below). First of all, Google stole the OS from other God's Computer. And put it to the Server (which hasn't been created by any-God, and was just a sink for homeless extra Power). See the results:

Gate's Computer'n'OS - OS = Computer <=> Google Web Browser
Server + OS = Google Web OS

Next equation is not so obvious:

Computer'n'OS - OS = Google + Power (I'll leave you here with your further allusions),

but when you realize that most of the Power was needed to run the OS, you'll simply get this equation.

DAY 2 HAS COME A WEEK AGO. But this is not the last one. Day 3 is coming...


Day 3.

JRM were feeling happy having no more deals with Backup for their data and applications and totally trusting in semi-Gods of Google and some other Gods nearby Google Olympus. They could access all they need from many kinds of devices wherever they could have been sitting, sleeping, eating... Nobody, not anymore, cared about Computer, which left without its Power. The Power now was everywhere in Internet in a form of homeless wild Power. Nobody have seen it since in the form of Processor or CPU. Now it was in a form of the Net. Their small devices had only a small fraction of old-days Power, which was equal to what they have had 10 years ago... (Google's been constantly improving all its Power Horses, called JavaScript, so the devices had been becoming more and more powerless, rapidly approximating to Nothing (compared to overall Power). All is needed - to be able to run Google Browser.

And here came Nothingness. Him was not of any God's kind. Him was a child of Backup and ZFS (edit: not a mistake, not GFS!). (Remember? Google, like they or not, had created Nothingness). Google probably had had things out of control in letting to meet them both... And this was very dangerous.

Nothingness set the Google's Power free and let it into the wild of Net.

JRM even didn't realize this! They still had their documents and apps off their devices and worked as usual. But now they had a lot of Backups! No. Not really Backups. They had Nothing! No, not really. They had their documents Everywhere! But not even one contiguios peace of the whole document or app was ever found at one place. The chunks of documents now were scattered among 1,000,000s of Servers across the Net. What could they dream even more? Now they have an Ultimate Backup, which would never ever be broken, missed or burnt! And doesn't belong to any particular or trusted site.


The Day After.

I'm not a God. So I didn't create anything (yet). But I can see a gigantic Parallel Net. It becomes more and more real with every coming day. We now are at the Day 2. That's it. Take it - or leave it.

I can also see how JRM are switching on their devices, which have only a small Browser OS inside, and start a Document. Browser asks the Net to assemble a Document application. It comes from the Server of unknown. Nobody knows how this Server is assembling the parts of application - it just searches for the parts and their corresponding versions. Some bigger parts of application may be pre-assembled on other Servers, and so on. The application self-parallelising algorithm may assemble it on demand. Some of parts even can never reach the final assembling point! Those will be just executed at place. The whole Net will be just a gigantic super-computer, performing all tasks for everyone. On the other hand - the document, which is saved by device, comes out to the Net too, split into many small chunks, and stored across millions of Servers by same parallel algorithms in a RAID manner. This should be really super RAID!

The resulting Document will be existing Everywhere and Nowhere at the same time.

This will be Parallel Net.