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July 24, 2008

Robert Metcalfe on The Internet

The Internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996.

- Robert Metcalfe

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Thank you for posting this.

It is always refreshing and encouraging to see a leader in a field be so wrong.

After that, who am I to be afraid to be wrong in my predictions... :)

The net collapsed in 1993:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

everything after that is just a detail.

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