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You People Are Breaking the Internet!

Pareene · 03/13/08 11:57AM

The Times warns us that because so many people watch funny videos of talking cats and dancing teenage girls on the internet these days, there might not be enough internet left for the rest of us! It's true: there is only so much internet, and YouTube is using like all of it. "In a widely cited report published last November, a research firm projected that user demand for the Internet could outpace network capacity by 2011." Oh no! We were totally planning to watch "I'm fucking Seth Rogen" that year! This is almost as bad as the time the internet totally suffered that "catastrophic collapse" in 1996, according to that 1995 prediction by engineer Robert Metcalfe. Man, the internet never recovered that that nonexistent disaster, we can only imagine how it'll fare after this one. [NYT]