[114085] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Apr 30 17:21:11 2009
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:55:44 MDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:20:32 -0400
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On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:55:44 MDT, =22J.D. Falk=22 said:
> (I don't even know where to start.)
Seen in a /etc/motd well over 2 decades ago:
/dev/earth is 98% full. Please delete anybody you can.
(OK, a tad drastic, I admit. ;)
=22When Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British scientist, wrote the code that
transformed a private computer network into the world wide web in 1989, t=
he
internet appeared to be a limitless resource.=22
WTF? I remember cursing the congestion on our T-1 link to Suranet in 1989=
a lot
more often than I curse our 10G link today. Was *anybody* seeing bandwid=
th as
limitless in 1989? ;)
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