Haven't we heard this before?

alternateorg on April 4, 2001


A two-month investigation by Sm@rt Partner shows the Internet is at risk from unexpected outages caused by everything from seismic disasters to system overloads, terrorism and just plain human error. Security is spotty, standards still don’t exist in many arenas and, because of the distributed ownership of the Internet itself, getting those standards in place is anything but easy.

What was it that I had heard a few years ago? Something along the lines of ‘the internet is growing so fast that it will collapse under its own weight sometime in 1998,’ or something? Whatever. Ain’t gonna happen.

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2 Replies to “Haven't we heard this before?”

  1. ddmmyy April 4, 2001 at 12:31 pm

    I never really understood the commotion over the collapse of the Internet.

  2. ddmmyy April 4, 2001 at 12:31 pm

    I never really understood the commotion over the collapse of the Internet.

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