[AusNOG] background radiation was: "i want a pony!" (was Re: Long live the NBN. The NBN is dead?! [personal])

[Mark Smith]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:52:52 -0400 (EDT)
Robert Brockway <robert at timetraveller.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Andrew Oskam wrote:
> 
> > I also dislike that people either forget or assume that the Internet 
> > will be the same in 10 or 20 years.
> 

Some of us remember the Internet before HTTP, and what it was like to
have shared access it over 9600bps.

> Well said.  We're at the beginning of the information revolution not the 
> end of it.  In 100 years people might be able to start to draw conclusions 
> about the ultimate impact on civilisation.  Until then we're all just 
> along for the ride.
> 

You may be "along for the ride" if you're not a network operator,
however most of the people on this list have to build it (layer 3), and
potentially be the people who say, "Can't be done because there
isn't enough money".

> > In my own opinion we are are just barely able to cope with the content 
> > we have now on the current model.
> 
> Parkinson's law applies to bandiwdth utilisation too.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rob
> 
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