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Re: Metcalfes "imminent death of the internet" prediction

Per Gregers Bilse <bilse@eu.net> Thu, 25 July 1996 15:14 UTC

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From: Per Gregers Bilse <bilse@eu.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 16:50:42 +0200
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On Jul 25,  9:51, George Michaelson <ggm@connect.com.au> wrote:
> This prediction never made much sense to me anyway. Maybe the man was
> mis-quoted.

No, don't forget Dr. Metcalfe's definition of a collapse: "... when
more than 50,000 people are denied their Internet access for more
than an hour, let's call it an Internet collapse, ...".  By that
definition the Internet has died when 100k people get no response
from IBM's WWW servers.

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