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Is this the end of the Internet that news.com predicted back in 1995?
by codecamper 10y ago
Is this the end of the Internet that news.com predicted back in 1995?
- djsumdog 10y agoAre you talking about this Newsweek article? http://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirvana-185306 http://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirva...
- pyre 10y agoLooks like that author has continued down the path of that line of though though, if you look at the books listed on his Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Stoll#Books https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Stoll#Books
- codecamper 10y agoI just remember seeing this article on news.com cira 1995 that predicted the imminent demise of the Internet due to the commercialization of it. It worried that the net just couldn't handle all the traffic from all those 56k dialup hitting and getting email all at once. So my comment was a bit on the ironic / goofy side.
- tbihl 10y agoI have no doubt we'll see the end of the global internet in the next couple decades, but it's going to take quite a few more of these before we get there.