[Coco] Fwd: save the internet

[James Hrubik]

Remember Y2K?  As a dye-in-the-wool troglodyte, I still maintain my  
wire-based phone line.  The CoCo sits unused, but ready, and all it  
would take would be to plug the modem into the phone jack.  Going to  
slow speeds might put a crimp in our ability to quickly send large  
reports, but at one time we used to schedule such tasks for times  
when the machine would manage things...

Ah, the good old days...

But -- telephone conversations and faxes are going over those same  
lines.  Will the next big scare be some concoction about overuse of  
the Internet causing phone calls to be dropped?

On Nov 29, 2007, at 8:23 AM, Rogelio Perea wrote:

> For some of us, 8 bit computing has never passed away :-)
>
> And that clogging study reflects only on bonafide traffic, throw in  
> the tons
> of spam floating around and the problem is really a nasty one. We  
> need less
> dumb people believing on quick-easy-money scams, every "I do" click  
> breaths
> renewed life to the spammers out there.
>
> My CoCo 3 is readily setup for the event along with its 2,400 bps  
> modem,
> only one DIN plug away from the bitbanger port... Ken Johntson's (sp?)
> Ultimaterm on the bright blue floppy ready to roll :-)
>
>
> -=[ Rogelio ]=-
>
>
> On Nov 29, 2007 7:50 AM, <PaulH96636 at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> (Back to 8-bit computing?......)   ;-)
>>
>>
>> A report issued by a US-based  technology analysis firm has warned  
>> that by
>> the year 2010 the Internet could  collapse due to excessive data.
>>
>> Nemertes Research Group has reported  that the increasing demand  
>> by users
>> and
>> customers to download and upload data  may well clog the information
>> superhighway in a few years.
>>
>> The study  suggests that the network is now struggling to conduct  
>> the huge
>> amount of data,  which contributes to reduced speed.
>>
>> The study suggests that the  improvement of the network's capacity  
>> would
>> require a total outlay in the region  of 137 billion dollars.
>>
>> The Internet infrastructure and capacity might  be insufficient to  
>> support
>> popular Websites such as Google and YouTube and the  projected  
>> slowdown
>> could
>> severely affect their operation.
>>
>> Experts worry  about serious effects resulting from the collapse  
>> of the
>> Internet on the life of  people in the electronic world of today.
>>
>
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