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Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sat Aug 7 16:42:49 2010

Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:42:36 -0700
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Roland Perry <lists@internetpolicyagency.com>
In-Reply-To: <sRZsriBLNZXMFA27@perry.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

> I wasn't suggesting LINX traffic was doubling every 100 days (it was
> tripling annually), simply pointing out that in 2001 Mike said that "a
> good rule of thumb during the late 1990's was that traffic doubled
> every 100 days", and going into print with that shows it was an
> accepted meme at the time.

actually, my altzheimer's device says that it is a meme today that mo
said that then.  my memory is that he said doubling every nine months.

randy


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