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Auerbach on Internet Cruft

Posted by michael on from the spring-cleaning dept.

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."

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  1. Text anyone by PD · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Anyone manage to get the text of the article before the server died? It would be nice to say something insightful, instead of just saying that I don't know what he's talking about. The Internet isn't a network, it's a network of networks. In other words, it's balkanized by definition.

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  2. Here's the original post from the fellow's blog by Goner · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Here.

    I feel like this story would've been better left sitting on his obscure blog than on the /. frontpage where it'll be routinely ripped to pieces. ____ is dying is like so totally over. ;)

  3. IMMINENT DOWNFALL OF THE INTERNET PREDICTED by Etyenne · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ... film at 11.

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  4. I can't believe nobody's posted this yet by HeghmoH · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Death of the internet predicted! Details at 11.

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