The Coming Exaflood, and Why It Won't Drown the Internet

In December, 1995, Bob Metcalfe wrote a famous column for InfoWorld in which he predicted that the Internet would suffer “gigalapses” at some point in 1996. According to his scenario, the massive traffic of the time was building like a wave about to break on the unsuspecting villagers who had just begun to rely on this “Internet” thing for email and some primitive Web browsing. Fantastic failures would be the norm as overloaded networks struggled to push the bits along.

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