Re: Eating My Collapse Column

On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Bob Metcalfe wrote:

Dear NANOG,

You've perhaps already heard that I made good on a promise to eat the 12/4/95 InfoWorld column in which I predicted Internet collapses during 1996. If not yet, then please. Yes, eating the column was a publicity thing, of course, and look at all the publicity it got.

<sigh> Great, now we can all stop working the 20 hour days using spit and duct tape to keep the net running. Hard bet to loose, hat's off to the guys at the core for keeping it up and together. Tim Gibson NOC Manager Skyscape Communciations