I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.
- Robert Metcalfe, in InfoWorld, 1995
Most things that succeed don’t require retraining 250 million people.
- Brian Carpenter, in the Associated Press, 1995
Tim Berners-Lee forgot to make an expiry date compulsory . . . any information can just be left and forgotten. It could stay on the network until it is five years out of date.
