#eternalseptember — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://mastodon.social/@onthisday/115673398971761625

I was working for SkyCache. We did satellite usenet and web cache pre-injection, saving ISPs money on transit costs. This lawsuit had a second order effect of dropping transit usage for those same ISPs. They stopped paying for our service.

It was a weird time on the internet. Prior to the lawsuit, a burst of innovation and scaling network capacities to accommodate the demand of P2P apps. With Napster falling and the dotCom bubble bursting all in the same time frame, the industry stagnated for a while. It was unfathomable to think we wouldn't need to keep scaling our network equipment, then overnight, *crickets*.

I think we're about to see the exact same thing happen with datacenters, GPUs, and electricity thanks to AI.

#AI #fuck_ai #eternalSeptember #napster

RE: https://mastodon.social/@onthisday/115673398971761625

I was working for SkyCache. We did satellite usenet and web cache pre-injection, saving ISPs money on transit costs. This lawsuit had a second order effect of dropping transit usage for those same ISPs. They stopped paying for our service.

It was a weird time on the internet. Prior to the lawsuit, a burst of innovation and scaling network capacities to accommodate the demand of P2P apps. With Napster falling and the dotCom bubble bursting all in the same time frame, the industry stagnated for a while. It was unfathomable to think we wouldn't need to keep scaling our network equipment, then overnight, *crickets*.

I think we're about to see the exact same thing happen with datacenters, GPUs, and electricity thanks to AI.

#AI #fuck_ai #eternalSeptember #napster

@jalefkowit it’s like #EternalSeptember + #EternalNovember + #DailyKos + #Instapundit