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Metcalfes "imminent death of the internet" prediction

George Michaelson <ggm@connect.com.au> Thu, 25 July 1996 00:21 UTC

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From: George Michaelson <ggm@connect.com.au>
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Well here we are, Australia is taking a massive pounding and collecting
enough bronze to start a cannon foundry and I don't see any massive change
in my RTT/drop. Since Poland and Turkey now outrank OZ in the medal stakes,
maybe all the traffic is coming from Europe, but I'd have expected melt-down
to be visible all over (not)

So what happened to the "Olympics gonna kill the net" claim? do we now
see some kind of retraction?

Maybe its all part of the grand conspiracy: lull us into a false sense
of security and then BAM! the weathermen are going to click on the URL
all at once, while the Chinese simultaneously leap into the water and
cause a tidal wave to swamp FIX-WEST...

This prediction never made much sense to me anyway. Maybe the man was
mis-quoted.

-George
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