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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted!</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../I.html" title="I"/><link rel="previous" href="IMHO.html" title="IMHO"/><link rel="next" href="in-the-extreme.html" title="in the extreme"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted!</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="IMHO.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">I</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="in-the-extreme.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Imminent-Death-Of-The-Net-Predicted-"/><dt xmlns="" id="Imminent-Death-Of-The-Net-Predicted-"><b>Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted!</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">prov.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet] Since <a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a> first got off the
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ground in 1980--81, it has grown exponentially, approximately doubling in
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size every year. On the other hand, most people feel the
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<a href="../S/signal-to-noise-ratio.html"><i class="glossterm">signal-to-noise ratio</i></a> of Usenet has dropped
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steadily. These trends led, as far back as mid-1983, to predictions of the
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imminent collapse (or death) of the net. Ten years and numerous doublings
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later, enough of these gloomy prognostications have been confounded that
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the phrase “<span class="quote">Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted!</span>” has become a
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running joke, hauled out any time someone grumbles about the
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<a href="../S/S-N-ratio.html"><i class="glossterm">S/N ratio</i></a> or the huge and steadily increasing volume, or the
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possible loss of a key node or link, or the potential for lawsuits when
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ignoramuses post copyrighted material, etc., etc., etc.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="IMHO.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="in-the-extreme.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">IMHO </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> in the extreme</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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