An 'interesting' article entitled: Is the Internet doomed? Massive increases in traffic have triggered debates about the 'Net's fate is worth a gander: http://cnnfn.com/digitaljam/9609/05/internet_crash_pkg/index.htm - paul
I think someone summed it up well on com-priv (forget who) by using the famous Yogi Berra quote: Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded. On September 6, 1996 at 13:54 pferguso@cisco.com (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
An 'interesting' article entitled:
Is the Internet doomed?
Massive increases in traffic have triggered debates about the 'Net's fate
is worth a gander:
http://cnnfn.com/digitaljam/9609/05/internet_crash_pkg/index.htm
- paul
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On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, Mark Boolootian wrote:
I think someone summed it up well on com-priv (forget who) by using the famous Yogi Berra quote: Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded.
I thought this came from a speech Reed Hundt gave recently.
http://www.fcc.gov/Speeches/Hundt/spreh629.txt It's like Yogi Berra's old line about a popular restaurant: "Nobody ever goes there any more; it's too crowded." Isn't the Internet wonderful? I didn't even need a search engine to find this one... Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
yeah, I like this part: " Bob Metcalfe, now executive correspondent for InfoWorld, was one of the pioneers who designed early versions of the Net. " hrmm... yup, boy he had such a great impact on the design of IP... the guy created ethernet, which is a worthwhile accomplishment, but that doesn't qualify him as an expert on IP, let alone the complex web of related issues. dammit. Ed -- On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, Paul Ferguson wrote:
is worth a gander:
http://cnnfn.com/digitaljam/9609/05/internet_crash_pkg/index.htm
An 'interesting' article entitled:
Is the Internet doomed?
Massive increases in traffic have triggered debates about the 'Net's fate
is worth a gander:
http://cnnfn.com/digitaljam/9609/05/internet_crash_pkg/index.htm
- paul
#define RANT_MODE 1 Am I the ONLY one who thought it was *absolutely priceless* that the first 2 paragraphs were arranged like this: NEW YORK (CNNfn) -- Traffic on the Internet, particularly on the World Wide Web, has positively exploded in the last two years, and this has triggered heated debates over the system's vulnerability. Data traffic on the 'Net today is already 25 times what it was just two years ago, and there appears to be no reliable way to predict how fast that demand will increase. (2.07 MB QuickTime Movie) Yes, that's right. Right after complaining that data traffic is on the increase, they have a link to a 2MB QuickTime movie to _illustrate_ that traffic is increasing. I wonder if they bothered to study how much extra traffic that silly 2MB quicktime movie they included was generating on its own, and how much they could have delayed the "imminent collapse" of the Net simply by leaving off the movie? Don't they understand that the only reason the Net is having these problems is that _Everyone_ is doing stupid things like adding unnecessary quicktime movies to web pages without thinking about the consequences, and without being held responsible for the extra bandwidth they will consume? *sigh* I guess you've just got to laugh at cases like these, because if you don't, you'll end up quitting, and taking off for the next unbesmirched horizon... #undef RANT_MODE Matt Petach trying not to be bitter...
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