My InfoWorld Column About NANOG

Fri Jun 21 21:56:34 UTC 1996

On Jun 21, 11:31, Bob Metcalfe <bob_metcalfe at infoworld.com> wrote:
> By the way, there are reports from two days ago that 400,000 people lost
> their Internet access for 13 hours.  Sounds like an outage approaching
> "collapse."

Let's blow this into proportion, shall we?  Current, somewhat
overhyped, estimates say there are 60M Internet users worldwide.
400k is some 0.67% of that.  Cut the hype in half if you want, and
make that 1.3% instead.  I say, some collapse.

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