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Re: Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:20:32 -0400
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:55:44 MDT, "J.D. Falk" 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. ;) "When Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British scientist, wrote the code that transformed a private computer network into the world wide web in 1989, the internet appeared to be a limitless resource." 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 bandwidth as limitless in 1989? ;)
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