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Intel Predicts Death Of WWW

LostCluster writes "Forbes is running a report saying that Intel's CTO claims that the WWW is 'running up on some architectural limitations' that will eventually cause its downfall. He's pushing a project called PlanetLab that has Princeton, Cambridge, Hewlett-Packard and AT&T on board, but Cisco is notably absent from that team."

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  1. Buy more chips by otisg · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is he also, by any chance, suggesting a solution: buy more, newever, faster Intel chips!?

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    1. Re:Buy more chips by rylin · · Score: 0, Funny

      But see, if we buy newer/faster intel chips, the temperature on the surface of this planet will triple, and "Waterworld" will come to be.

    2. Re:Buy more chips by pommiekiwifruit · · Score: 1, Funny

      I never did figure out how to insert a CD-ROM or an internet connection directly into a pentium chip like on the adverts...

  2. First time I see a story without comments by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... it has already happened!?

    "The Internet will end when 1 million slashdotters click this link"

  3. ... But blind posts are forever by walmass · · Score: 5, Funny

    WWW may be dying, but repeating old stories is forever

  4. Hurray, another XXXXX is dead story. by Biotech9 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd love to see how much of the nets resources are taken up by spam mail, viruses, worms, and the like. I would imagine (although I am totally uneducated in the arena of 'tech') that if these problems were wrapped up for good, a whole lot of stress would be removed from the Internets shoulders.

    I'm also cynical enough to predict that intel are saying;
    "The net is dying... AND WE HAVE THE SOLUTION! SIGN UP NOW FOR ONLY $5.99 TO GET A STARTER PACK"

  5. Dupe by Detritus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dupe, Dupe, Dupe, Dupe of URL
    Dupe of URL.
    Dupe of URL.

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  6. Death of the Internet by gowen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps the internet will be killed by the fact that, with constant breeding of duplicated news stories, one will eventually reach critical mass and overwhelm all other information.

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  7. Too late for Intel by News+for+nerds · · Score: 3, Funny
    In Soviet Russia, WWW predicts Death Of Intel!
    "Forbes is running a report saying that AMD's CTO claims that Intel's P4 is 'running up on some architectural limitations' that will eventually cause its downfall."
  8. The Internet is Dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    It is official; Netcraft confirms: the Internet is dying

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered the Internet community when IDC confirmed that the Internet market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that the Internet has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. the Internet is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict the Internet's future. The hand writing is on the wall: the Internet faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for the Internet because the Internet is dying. Things are looking very bad for the Internet. As many of us are already aware, the Internet continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

    All major surveys show that the Internet has steadily declined in market share. the Internet is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If the Internet is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. the Internet continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, the Internet is dead.

    Fact: the Internet is dying

    1. Re:The Internet is Dying by azaris · · Score: 1, Funny

      It is official; Netcraft confirms: the Internet is dying

      Are you sure? I seem to have trouble bringing up www.netcraft.com...

  9. The experts by shoemakc · · Score: 5, Funny


    Well god bless them. I remember the day vividly when my shiney new Pentium 3 arrived, and i was finally able to browse the internet.

    And why hardware limitation exactly are they refering to; heat from your cpu exhaust instantly melting through your patch cable?

    -Chris

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  10. No its true! by forgotten_my_nick · · Score: 3, Funny

    I looked at the article and it had..

    "Beware of the End of the World (Wide Web), " Says Intel

    Clearly the " the start of the internet corruption. :-O

    On a more serious note, the news story doesn't actually tell you anything except use Intel stuff.

  11. Intel Board Meeting Transcript by uberlinuxguy · · Score: 0, Funny

    Intel CEO: "So what can someone suggest as a way of bumping our revenue?" Patrick Gelsinger: "I know, let's go public and say that the WWW is dying and that we have a solution." Person with conscience: "But, but, but, what about IPv6 and such?" CEO: "Who let him in here?!?!"

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  12. WWW predicts... by hachete · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...the death of Intel, the rise of AMD, film at whatever

    h.

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  13. terrorism link? by davejenkins · · Score: 2, Funny

    Has he linked his project to the War on Terror(TM)? If not, he won't stand a chance of getting any funding or attention. The virus protection scam comes close, but he needs to throw in a little more doom and gloom...

  14. What?? by ceeam · · Score: 1, Funny

    No more slashdot then?! --shock--

  15. I, for one, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    welcome our new Intelnet overlords.

  16. Re:the Internet is not the WWW by NetNifty · · Score: 1, Funny

    anybody who announces that the internet is dying using the internet can't be taken seriously!

  17. The scary part is that he's right by Jugalator · · Score: 2, Funny

    The WWW will eventually die, along with other common Internet technologies!

    PlanetLab? Not RTFA, I suppose that's to make a new planet for us?

    Thanks, Intel!

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  18. Pentel Predicts Death Of WWW by tommasz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pentel, the world's leading provider of 0.5mm mechanical pencils has predicted the World Wide Web cannot continue to function at its present level for much longer. Pentel is offering an alternative, called WSD, or Writing Stuff Down, that is virtually immune to scaling problems currently plaguing the Web. Industry experts have been slow to respond to this proposal but their responses are expected any day now, via another new technology called the Post Office.

  19. Typo found... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    WWW is 'running up on some architectural limitations' that will eventually cause its downfall.

    uh... Windows is spelt with only 1 W and ends in "indows"

  20. A little piece... by jmcmunn · · Score: 2, Funny

    A little piece of the WWW dies every day. But after it has spent it's 12 hours on the front page of /. it will be back. Don't worry, the death is only temporary...

  21. And here's the code that killed it... by D4C5CE · · Score: 4, Funny
    Whoever wrote this may not have been stood up in front of a firing squad yet, but hopefully he's been sacked by now:
    "Beware of the End of the World (Wide Web)," Says Intel
    Yet bad HTML and childish language are the least of this blurb's problems - even the dot.com bubble in its heyday has probably never produced an article so full of vapor and devoid of the slightest piece of information at all:
    the Internet will begin to collapse as millions of new computer users from developing nations begin to sign on. "We're running up on some architectural limitations," Gelsinger was quoted as saying. Gelsinger's solution is to build a new network over the current Internet, that would monitor and direct traffic and better fight security threats or traffic surges.
    So how does one sum up this little "gem"?
    As "Erm, vaguely, something, some day"?!
    An while they are at it, how about defining the out-of-context "collapse" and "some architectural limitations" for this article to have any meaning whatsoever?
    However, Cisco controls most of the routers and switchers comprising the current web, and it may have other ideas.
    OMG. Aren't we all just stunned by the writer's clarity, precision and thorough understanding of all things technical...

    If there's an "anti-Pulitzer", a prize for the worst misachievements in journalism, Forbes&FinancialWire may just have given us a very promising "Candidate of the Year".

  22. It makes sense... by Akimotos · · Score: 1, Funny

    We replaced our intel boxes by AMD Opteron's and Apple G4's ... so intel will probably see us as another dead customer. So THEIR net indeed is dying.

  23. More predictions by HomeGroove · · Score: 1, Funny
    Let's see, what other silliness were predicted in the past:
    • Apple will go bankrupt.
    • We'll be in Flying cars by the year 2000.
    • Astronaut food is yummy. Everybody will eat it.
    • The Red Sox will win another World Series.
    If only the last one wold come true. Hmmm, let me make some predictions:
    • The internet will not die, it will evolve (as it has already).
    • The Red Sox will win within my lifetime (I have at least 40 years left, could happen).
    • Kerry will win the election.
      or
      Bush will win and start the apocolypse
    • Related to the Bush win: I will move to Canada.
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  24. Let's see: by Mr.Surly · · Score: 2, Funny

    1) Flying cars only 10 years away (for the last 60 years).

    2) Y2K will end life as we know it.

    3) WWW now officially dead. Close your browser.

    I guess that sums it up. Forgive me if I don't hold my breath.

  25. "No support for quote marks" by labradort · · Score: 2, Funny

    "No support for quote marks", says Forbes

    "The WWW has never shown that it can consistantly produce the quotation marks we need
    when we need, and for this reason it needs to go back to the drawing board", said an unnamed source with the Forbes web design team.

  26. Al Gore... The Failure by dunc78 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can't Al Gore do anything right? No wonder he is so pissed off now.

  27. Monorail! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I hope y'all appreciate this, I had a bitch of a time getting the stupid /. filters to accept this.

    The Monorail Song

    Lyle Lanley: Well, sir, there's nothing on earth Like a genuine, Bona fide, Electrified, Six-car Monorail! ... What'd I say?
    Ned Flanders: Monorail!
    Lyle Lanley: What's it called?
    Patty+Selma: Monorail!
    Lyle Lanley: That's right! Monorail!
    [crowd chants `Monorail' softly and rhythmically]
    Miss Hoover: I hear those things are awfully loud...
    Lyle Lanley: It glides as softly as a cloud.
    Apu: Is there a chance the track could bend?
    Lyle Lanley: Not on your life, my Hindu friend.
    Barney: What about us brain-dead slobs?
    Lyle Lanley: You'll all be given cushy jobs.
    Abe: Were you sent here by the devil?
    Lyle Lanley: No, good sir, I'm on the level.
    Wiggum: The ring came off my pudding can.
    Lyle Lanley: Take my pen knife, my good man.
    I swear it's Springfield's only choice...
    Throw up your hands and raise your voice!
    All: [singing] Monorail!
    Lyle Lanley: What's it called
    All: Monorail!
    Lyle Lanley: Once again...
    All: Monorail!
    Marge: But Main Street's still all cracked and broken...
    Bart: Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken!
    All: [singing] Monorail!
    Monorail!
    Monorail!
    [big finish]
    Monorail!
    Homer: Mono... D'oh