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Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble
From: Roland Perry <lists () internetpolicyagency com>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:56:46 +0100
In article <AANLkTi=MsYAfA5EttFjpo71Bq1fUB+RSyBRgD4HEeHca () mail gmail com>, Kenny Sallee <kenny.sallee () gmail com> writes
So the whole 'myth' of Internet doubling every 100 days to me is something someone (ODell it seems) made up to appease someone higher in the chain or a government committee that really doesn't get it.
[Whether it was really 100 days, or 200 days...] a statistic like this has very real operational significance, because it sets expectations in the minds of senior management and investors that the new shiny hardware (or leased line, or peering agreement...) you just put in place isn't going to last "a lifetime", and will need replacing/upgrading really quite soon.
Another meme at the time (at least in the UK) was the idea of "Internet Time", where things happened four times as fast as "real life". So you'd realise that things like a "five year plan" were really only going to last just over a year. And, of course, policy and law related to the Internet gets out of date four times as fast, too.
-- Roland Perry
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- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble, (continued)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Christopher Morrow (Aug 09)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Nick Hilliard (Aug 09)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Roland Perry (Aug 09)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Christopher Morrow (Aug 09)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Jorge Amodio (Aug 06)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Andrew Odlyzko (Aug 06)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Jessica Yu (Aug 06)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Andrew Odlyzko (Aug 06)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Jorge Amodio (Aug 07)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Min (Aug 06)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Kenny Sallee (Aug 09)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Roland Perry (Aug 10)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Haudy Kazemi (Aug 13)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Jeff Young (Aug 10)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble kris foster (Aug 10)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Roland Perry (Aug 11)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Andrew Odlyzko (Aug 06)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Jessica Yu (Aug 11)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Andrew Odlyzko (Aug 11)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 09)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Randy Bush (Aug 09)