The Growing Pains of Cyberspace: Tackling Scalability in the Early Internet
In the nascent days of the internet, a realm brimming with excitement and potential, few could have envisioned the sheer scale and complexity it would eventually attain. As the internet began to permeate every facet of society, the number of connected nodes—computers, servers, and later, a myriad of devices—expanded at an unprecedented rate. This rapid…