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


From: Andy Davidson <andy () nosignal org>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 18:43:13 +0100


On 7 Aug 2010, at 18:09, Roland Perry didn't exactly write:

'a good rule of thumb during the late 1990's was that traffic doubled every 100 days'

This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

To the original poster, there is another collection of memes (some might even/one day be true) on the 'Future of the 
Internet' lecture series, on Stanford's 'iTunes U' area - lecture 3 is on Internet Economics and touches on the history 
of this (mis?)-quote ?

Best wishes
Andy

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