{"id":9328,"date":"2009-01-08T13:38:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9328"},"modified":"2009-01-08T13:38:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"the-internet-is-doomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9328","title":{"rendered":"The Internet Is Doomed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know, the Internet exists purely because of the pornography industry *tongue in cheek*.\u00a0 They&#8217;re the folks who drove multimedia, the ever increasing demand for bandwidth and push cash flow across the net.\u00a0 There may actually be some grains of truth in this!<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that the global recession has hit that industry where it hurts &#8230; the bank account.\u00a0 I just saw on Sky News that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Larry_Flynt\" target=\"_blank\">Larry Flynt<\/a> (played by Woody Harrelson in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_People_vs._Larry_Flynt\" target=\"_blank\">movie<\/a>) is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/01\/07\/porn-bailout-larry-flynt_n_155878.html\" target=\"_blank\">seeking a $5 billion bailout<\/a> from Congress in the USA.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>What will happen to the Internet if it&#8217;s driving force goes to the wall?\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/joeelway.spaces.live.com\/blog\/cns!2095EAC3772C41DB!481.entry\" target=\"_blank\">Eircom<\/a> will finally have an excuse for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegeography.com\/cu\/article.php?article_id=26629&amp;email=html\" target=\"_blank\">being slow about rolling out upgrades<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know, the Internet exists purely because of the pornography industry *tongue in cheek*.\u00a0 They&#8217;re the folks who drove multimedia, the ever increasing demand for bandwidth and push cash flow across the net.\u00a0 There may actually be some grains of truth in this! It turns out that the global recession has hit that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9328\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Internet Is Doomed?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}