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Hannu H. Kari Gives The Internet 2 More Years

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-he's-warning-you dept.

erick99 writes "Dr. Hannu Kari says the Internet will will collapse in 2006 as reported in an article on ARS Technica. Yes, this is the same Dr. Kari who has predicted doom before, but it is still an entertaining read and there is more than a grain of truth in his reasoning." Reader Titney writes adds a couple of excerpts from an article on NewsRoom Finland: "The entire system will crumble to bits as the sheer bulk of rubbish circling around in the net exceeds the public pain threshold. ... When the internet is no longer operational for business purposes, one has to time warp back 10 to 20 years and make do without information networks"

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  1. He's not too terribly inconsistent though... by BaldGhoti · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those who didn't RTFA (like the editor), he was indeed predicting the end of the internet back in 2001. However, he was predicting that there were five years left. So he's been consistent on 2006.

    Not that he's, yanno, sane or anything, but at least he's consistent.

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  2. Re:All together now... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's a citation for that quote. The Internet. On the edge of collapse since 1981.

  3. Re:If Hannu H. Kari dosn't work for... by geeber · · Score: 3, Informative

    This new collapse will probably look much like the last one that was predicted...

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  4. Re:It doesn't matter until it affects the common m by farzadb82 · · Score: 3, Informative
    Actually, I would re-word what you just said to "It doesn't matter until it affects a person of power."

    Basically what I'm getting at is that it doesn't matter until someone in a position that has the power to force change is affected directly or indirectly.

    As with your example with DOS, more than high-end users were being affected. The competition work out alternatives to use extra memory (EMS memory anyone ?), and it wasn't until MS realized that they were going to loose to the competition that they came out with XMS and High Memory, etc. scheme from DOS 5 onwards.

    Windows Enhanced mode did not take effect for a long time. Lots of applications were still written and being written for DOS, even when Windows 3.1 was around. It wasn't until the release of Windows 95 that things began to change and people started to look towards Windows as a "real" application platform.

  5. Re:If Hannu H. Kari dosn't work for... by Cylix · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah,

    They wanted to do that at work. I simply refused to publicly display any of our email addresses. The last account/address they had was a spam fest because of this.

    So, I coded a simple web form for placing comments. The webform message allows someone to supply a reply to address and then its sent off to everyone who needs to respond to it.

    What's really funny... one day.. someone actually cut and pasted their spam into the webform. (I went to the persons website... they were not remotely technically inclined)

    It's very easy to get in touch with us via email and this technique really impairs harvesting.

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  6. Re:And for anyone who believes this... by dubl-u · · Score: 4, Informative

    That September will finally end?

    Wow, for just a moment that gave me hope. You cruel, cruel bastard.

    (For those saying, "WTF?", see this.)