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Auerbach on Internet Cruft
Captain Beefheart writes "Karl Auerbach has a story on CircleID in which he declares '...Between spam, anti-spam blacklists, rogue packets, never-forgetting search engines, viruses, old machines, bad regulatory bodies, and bad implementations, I fear that the open Internet is going to die sooner than I would have expected.' The Balkanization of the 'Net appears to be upon us."
Right after Usenet, *BSD, Stephen King, etc.
I can't say that I don't give a fuck. I've just run out of fuck to give.
I feel that the Internet is our last source of un-censored and un-biased information.
See Slashdot for an example.
"I feel that the Internet is our last source of un-censored and un-biased information."
I think you're forgetting about Fox News...
As if you needed to prove that this guy is just another doomsaying blowhard trying to get people to read his article.
Hooray the internets ending. I for one welcome our new outernet overlords.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Do they count slashdottings as 'cruft'? Either way, this isn't going to increase their opinion of the internet now, is it?
Google cached copy of article.
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The Internet is no longer the simple playground it was in the late 80s! Waah, no fair! I have to learn something new and deal with a giant, heterogeneous mass of losers, hackers, cluebies and porn stars instead of a half-dozen geeks futzing with the rack of 3 dusty 3B2s in the basement running on AUX ethernet taps.
Geesh, get over it pal, nothing is static.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Lets see:
>Between spam,: Yeah, that came from Balkan
>anti-spam blacklists,: Definetly more Balkan
>rogue packets,: Ok, maybe some Balkan here
>never-forgetting search engines,: Balkans fault
>viruses, Balkan is evil
>old machines,: Ok, some Balkan
>bad regulatory bodies,: Everything is Balkan's fault
>and bad implementations: Blame Balkan
So please give the peaceful people at Balkan a break!
Blame the those who tries to regulate Internet instead. And blame those that makes tools that makes it posible to do all above. Hey, accidentaly that would mean some of all those Open Source tools..
Uhh, but that can't be right, blame the evil corporations
Proud patriot and republican voter.
You either deal with the online idiots, or abandon the internet. The pros of the internet FAR outweigh the cons, IMO.
Frankly I dont see the spams and ddos attacks and blah blah that you all get so worked up over as much of a big deal. I get little spam, on the order of a couple dozen a year. Big ddos attacks on commercial sites have never really bothered me. Whoopty do.
There are jerks at the mall, but its still the best place in town to buy a new pair of pants.
"Elitist jackass thinks we need to abandon internet because he's offended by penis-enlarging spam". Big boo-hoo deal. You run off and start your own internet then. Those of us with balls (or a reasonable equivalent) will stick around here, thanks. Because it really isnt that bad.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
you misspelled 'faux' there. common mistake.
"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." - A.B.
His server certainly died sooner that I expected.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
DO NOT CONNECT TO THE INTERNET FROM 12:01 AM GMT ON APR. 1 TO 12:01 AM GMT, APR. 2 !!
*** Attention ***
It's that time again!
As many of you know, each year the Internet must be shut down for 24 hours in order to allow us to clean it. The cleaning process, which eliminates dead email, inactive ftp and www sites, and empty USENET groups, allows for a better working and faster Internet.
This year, the cleaning process will take place from 12:01 a.m. GMT on April 1 until 12:01 a.m. GMT on April 2 (the time least likely to interfere with ongoing work). During that 24-hour period, five powerful Internet search engines situated around the world will search the Internet and delete any data that they find.
In order to protect your valuable data from deletion we ask that you do the following:
1. Disconnect all terminals and local area networks from their Internet connections.
2. Shut down all Internet servers, or disconnect them from the Internet.
3. Disconnect all disks and hard drives from any connections to the Internet.
4. Refrain from connecting any computer to the Internet in any way.
We understand the inconvenience that this may cause some Internet users, and we apologize. However, we are certain that any inconveniences will be more than made up for by the increased speed and efficiency of the Internet, once it has been cleared of electronic flotsam and jetsam.
We thank you for your cooperation.
Kim Dereksen
Interconnected Network Maintenance staff,
Main branch,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sysops and others: Since the last Internet cleaning, the number of Internet users has grown dramatically. Please assist us in alerting the public of the upcoming Internet cleaning by posting this message where your users will be able to read it. Please pass this message on to other sysops and Internet users as well.
Thank you.
Anyone manage to get the text of the article before the server died?
Read other comments much?
This guy thought about writing an article on the great Internet, stopped xmule for a moment to do a tcpdump and discovered with horror that hundreds of unknown machines are trying to connect to his on unknown ports ? Oh the humanity!
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Computing survived 8088 processors running at 4.77 MHz, with only 5 1/4 inch floppy disks for storage. If computing can survive that, the Internet can survive anything.
1) (*)BSD is dying.
2) The Internet was built on BSD.
3) The Internet is dying.
I remember that movie where the Enterprise goes to Balkan to revive Spock. It was pretty cool. Balkans are all really logical so I'm assuming that the Balkanization of the internet just means it will be made more logical. Sounds good to me.
yes, apparently his server is one of those 'old machines' or at least a 'bad implementation'....
[Something witty and intelligent should have appeared here.]
{Traicovn}
No, he's right. The Internet is dead. In fact, I've already dismantled my computer and set it out by the street. The Internet is over. Now, who wants to go get a pizza?
These comments do express the opinions of my employers, and, personally, I think they're complete rubbish.
You were e-mailed. Maybe you missed it. It was in the news digest of "Really Important Stuff You Need to Know" that you signed up for at one of our associate sights. The article about the end of the world was right after the article about the "New Revolutionary Breakthrough All-Natural Member Growth Formula" (so you can make her happy before the world ends) and before the one about the "Totally Free Government Grant and Mortgage Refinancing Options" now available exclusively to you if you respond in the next two weeks (so that, if the world doesn't end after all, you can buy a new house to make her happy in).
Wow, karma-whoring on the karma whores! Nice! ;)
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Internet is dying! In other news, Moore's Law will soon be invalid. Please tune to our news at 10 to watch the broadcast of the impending doom.
Future Wiki -- If you don't think about the future, you cannot have one.
I believe you're refering to September 1996, aka the September that never ended.
Before that all that really henious porn wasn't commercialized. Sure you had to find the FTP site carved, serrupticiously, out of a government server, but it was sometimes free, and would almost certainly make you flinch.
In SOVIET RUSSIA, the Internet censors AOL.
Help me build a new one. If balkanization is inevitable, at least have your own balkan city-state when the mess begins...
If only that were possible. Pizza is dead. No more toppings, no more cheese... it's all gone, bye bye. I've already placed my boxes of unused stridex pads out on the street. Now, who wants to go out to a disco?
- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then ???, then profit.