The image above is linked to an interesting discussion at Wired about the decline of certain sectors of the Internet and the increasing ascendancy of others. Worth reading while keeping in mind the alarms that Alex Jones and many others have raised about the potential imminent death of net neutrality.
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Zero day releases are constantly being uploaded to file sharing servers. That's sure to take a bite out of P2P. But P2P is still going strong. Ah, I remember the FTP days...
I fondly remember FTP, too, Nighted.
Heck, I am old enough to gopher and archie and when usenet was the coolest thing ever.
Percentages can be deceiving. What about the total bandwidth? Are web and P2P also decreasing in actual bandwidth? I doubt it very much.
I was more into BBSs (PCBoard, RelayNet, FidoNet) for files than ftp, archie, gopher.
A good point, kpolsson. It would be illuminating to see numbers comparing absolute bandwidth over time. Keep an eye out for that!
As long as we are continuing our stroll down memory lane, I'll confess that though I never ran a BBS, I was involved with FidoNet for about 3 years including several months as Net Coordinator. Good times.
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