I just remember seeing this article on news.com cira 1995 that predicted the imminent demise of the Internet due to the commercialization of it. It worried that the net just couldn't handle all the traffic from all those 56k dialup hitting and getting email all at once.
So my comment was a bit on the ironic / goofy side.
I have no doubt we'll see the end of the global internet in the next couple decades, but it's going to take quite a few more of these before we get there.
http://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirva...