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- Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!nott-cs!lut.ac.uk!
- From: jon@hill.lut.ac.uk (Jon P. Knight)
- Subject: Re: SerialGopher QA
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.194825.8828@lut.ac.uk>
- Keywords: gopher
- Nntp-Posting-Host: hill.lut.ac.uk
- Organization: Dept of Comp. Studies, Loughborough University of Tech., UK.
- References: <1993Jan21.101139.17555@informatik.uni-ulm.de>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 19:48:25 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.101139.17555@informatik.uni-ulm.de>
- ulbrich@informatik.uni-ulm.de (Jan Ulbrich) writes:
- >
- > [...] And to hit the political aspect:
- > If you give access to the Internet to everyone, it will break down. But
- > everyone should have access to powerful information-systems - in reading
- > and writing.
-
- Just one point: why will the Internet break down if we give it to
- everyone? So far it seems to have scaled very well - an enormous growth
- rate is currently being supported and estimates have put the number of
- users as high as 10 million on over 1 million hosts. Developments such
- as gopher, Z39.50 systems, WWW and email front ends are making the
- Internet more easily used my non-``wirehead'' users.
-
- My hope is that eventually people will have Internet access as we
- currently have access to roads, radios and footpaths. Indeed I hope
- that it will be that the Internet will be even more widely spread - into
- the Third World and to the poorer communities in the First World. With
- constant developments such as IPv7 I can see no reason why it can
- eventually be accessible to a very large userbase. After all, who would
- have thought that the early packet networks of the late 60's and early
- 70's would grow to support today's user populations.
-
- Have I missed something fundamental here?
-
- Jon
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- Jon Knight, Research Student in High Performance Networking and Distributed
- Systems in the Department of _Computer_Studies_ at Loughborough University.
- * Its not how big your share is, its how much you share that's important. *
-