our boy John -- the NYTimes

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

Subject: NYT on Info Hwy traffic jam
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1993 09:39:52 -0600
From: "Gregory B. Newby" <gbnewby@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu>


There's a well-done article on the Information Highway Traffic Jam
in today's (Wednesday 11/3/93) New York Times (pA1 & C7).


They interviewed a number of people, including folks at MSEN, Merit,
NCSA, Panix, and ANI.  The basic conclusion is that new applications
(esp. MOSAIC) are combining with the growth in users (they provide an
estimate of 15 million Internet users worldwide) to make for a massive
bottleneck.


Although they stretch the traffic metaphor a bit (do people really
rubberneck as they "'drive by' an 'accident scene?'"), the article is
well done and points to a real concern that many Internet users may
be oblivious to (not we on c-p, of course!).
  -- Greg