2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
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Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted!
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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prov. [Usenet] Since Usenet first got off the ground in 1980--81, it has
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grown exponentially, approximately doubling in size every year. On the other
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hand, most people feel the signal-to-noise ratio of Usenet has dropped
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steadily. These trends led, as far back as mid-1983, to predictions of the
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imminent collapse (or death) of the net. Ten years and numerous doublings
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later, enough of these gloomy prognostications have been confounded that the
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phrase Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted! has become a running joke,
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hauled out any time someone grumbles about the S/N ratio or the huge and
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steadily increasing volume, or the possible loss of a key node or link, or
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the potential for lawsuits when ignoramuses post copyrighted material, etc.,
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etc., etc.
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