Here's a misleading story from

Here's a misleading story from the BBC, claiming that the Internet has shrunk. What's actually happened is that a bunch of people who hysterically registered gobs of domains in 1999/2000 in the hopes of getting rich off domain-speculation have let them domains lapse. The number of pages, users, bits transferred, IPs in use, and hosts (both routable and non-routable) is of course up.

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