July 26, 2001

2:10 PM

Imminant death of net predicted. Good, the fad-followers can go on to whatever's next and the real geeks can take their Jolt back to their cubicles and go back to arguing about the One True Indentation Style.
posted by jfuller (9 comments total)

Well, y'know how people get lost in those decentralized networks...
posted by rschram at 3:03 PM on July 26, 2001

Funny, my hits are up this month...
posted by Nothing at 3:13 PM on July 26, 2001

that would be:

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thanks. :D
posted by jcterminal at 3:41 PM on July 26, 2001

I would love to know the stats re non-business broadband deployment. Anyone know where to find that?
posted by ParisParamus at 3:48 PM on July 26, 2001

AHH! PANIC! PANIC!

... *pant* ... *pant*... wait.. couldn't it just be that everyone in wealthy industrialized countries who could possibly have any use for internet already has access? I mean, the statistics they cited in the article mostly just show declines in growth rate, rather than actual decline.
posted by Hildago at 3:49 PM on July 26, 2001

Of course, it's summer....
posted by ph00dz at 8:09 PM on July 26, 2001

Here You Go Paris

I dont' know anything about the source, but:

As of June 1, 2001, there were 7.6 million residential broadband Internet subscribers in the United States and 1.7 million in Canada. But the Canadian number is equal to 15 percent penetration of Canadian households, double the U.S. penetration rate.
posted by willnot at 8:56 PM on July 26, 2001

Anyone know where to find that?

look in the eMarketer eStat Database

See, MeFi is work-related surfing...

The Kinetics Strategy survey looks fairly accurate.
Hard numbers for Q# 2000 put the number of US broadband households at around 4 million....
Estimates for the number or residential broadband Internet subscribers in the US range from 5.1 million to 13.54 million, further proving that many of these numbers are total BS.
posted by andrewraff at 10:13 AM on July 27, 2001

oops-- I meant to reedit rather than post, but the first sentence in my post above are supposed to be within a < plug mode="shameless" for="employerssite" > tag. :)
posted by andrewraff at 10:14 AM on July 27, 2001