[128413] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Fri Aug 6 12:50:56 2010
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
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Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 12:50:48 -0400
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On Aug 6, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Roland Perry wrote:
> In article <5AC3E79A-392B-4D1B-BFC7-2700942FDC3C@ianai.net>, Patrick =
W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net> writes
>> Although, as someone active in 2000, I can tell you that traffic did
>> not grow 12.55 times per year (doubling every 100 days), or anything
>> even close to that.
>=20
> Keeping it in the family a little, Mike was quoted as saying this - =
see p2: https://www.linx.net/files/hotlinx/hotlinx-3.pdf
>=20
> Although there were two factors here as far as LINX itself was =
concerned - growth in members as well as growth in traffic from each =
individual member.
Even ignore the fact this is overestimating growth, it still is not =
12.55 times in one year. Or even double in 100 days.
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
