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> > 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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