Yeah, But

November 1996 / Bits / Yeah, But

The Internet is growing so fast that we can't keep up with it. It's where everything cool in the computing wor ld is happening, and nothing can stop it from growing.
Yeah, but a recent report by Yankelovich Partners (Norwalk, CT), a market research firm, indicates that the Internet is at a crossroads, and that unless the cost of access devices such as PCs and modems improves, the rate of Internet growth will decline. The firm says the annual average growth rate in the number of cybercitizens will decline to 20 percent by the end of the year unless the price to play on the Internet comes down. Another caution flag: Between May 1995 and May 1996, average on-line time fell by 25 percent, from just over 16 hours to 12 hours.

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Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it is theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.

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