Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted!: prov. [Usenet] Since
Usenet first got off the ground in 1980-81, it has grown
exponentially, approximately doubling in size every year. On the
other hand, most people feel the signal-to-noise ratio of Usenet
has dropped steadily. These trends led, as far back as mid-1983, to
predictions of the imminent collapse (or death) of the net. Ten
years and numerous doublings later, enough of these gloomy
prognostications have been confounded that the phrase "Imminent
Death Of The Net Predicted!" has become a running joke, hauled out
any time someone grumbles about the S/N ratio or the huge and
steadily increasing volume, or the possible loss of a key node or
link, or the potential for lawsuits when ignoramuses post
copyrighted material, etc., etc., etc.
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