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Internet2 and You
eldavojohn writes "With a name like Internet2 and such high press coverage, you might think that's the future of the Internet servicing our homes. But Ars Technica looks more closely at what the odds actually are for it to become mainstream. When will you see the effects of the software, planning and hardware that went into Internet2 in your home? The odds are the very distant future — if at all. From the article: 'The Internet as we now know it is anything but obsolete. The amount of dedicated hardware and personal attention required to get networks like Internet2 and DANTE working simply makes them uneconomical for most common uses. And, unless a majority of networked content moves onto these dedicated networks, then having access to them may not do users much good. If the academic networks change the commercial ones, they'll do it in an evolutionary way, by providing improved hardware and better software for running traffic within the constraints of the existing economic structure.'"
Win.
It's sitting here on this floppy disk. Does that mean I'll have to buy a CD burner to download Internet2?
I've heard the odd internets are better. Only one sample so far though.
Just be grateful that Microsoft wasn't put in charge of creating the Internet, or we'd all still be using station wagons full of tapes* in 2020, while waiting for Internet 3.1**.
* And you think global warming is bad in our reality...
** aka Internet for Workgroups
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It only takes one man to change the Wisdom of the Crowd to Tyranny of the Masses.