Yeah, but what's the current number? I'd be surprised if it were more than 5-10% these days. 2009 was 11 years ago, the internet was a much smaller and less regulated place.
This is silly. Are you actually saying that bittorrent was hyped so much that constituting half the internet was a letdown? And that Perl didn't live up to its hype because it's only common today, and not as universal as it once was?
> This is silly. Are you actually saying that bittorrent was hyped so much that constituting half the internet was a letdown?
My point is that it was a fad, it's barely used anymore and it was 50% in 2009, now its usage is much, much lower. I've seen a lot of statistics of streaming services being 20-30% of the internet each (Netflix, Youtube), so I'd be amazed if BitTorrent is more than 10% 2020 (and that's a very generous estimate), as I said previously. Anyway, it doesn't matter, there are a lot of techs that were super hyped and in the end, faded away. SOAP, CORBA, XML databases, semantic web techs (RDF, etc.), RSS, ...
> And that Perl didn't live up to its hype because it's only common today, and not as universal as it once was?
Perl is not common, it's uncommon. Let's say you're a developer in one of 100 big cities around the world, how likely it is for you to find a job developing Perl web apps? I'd say that in 80-90 of those, you can't even find that job. That's not a common tech in 2020 ;-)
Pogs were a fad. Bittorrent took downloading large files from being an unreliable pain to being effortless.
Perl was not a 'fad', it was what powered the internet's dynamic sites in the early days. Foundational technologies that eventually are hidden from the average person is not what 'fad' refers to.
Just because you don't use something doesn't mean it isn't used. You keep digging in to nonsense. (Also total internet bandwidth usage has increased significantly over time).
That makes zero sense. How much of the entire internet should have been bittorrent to live up to the "hype". Also what hype are you talking about? I only remember bittorrent gaining traction because it worked. Where is your idea of hype coming from?
Are they though?
I'm 38 and can't remember a situation in my life where a gun would have been useful. Not saying that I can't imagine such situations, I just find it a slightly weird example to make this point.
I also don't think that a fishing pole is useful, but that's because I don't like to fish. With a gun I could
* defend myself
* rob you
* murder you very effectively
* enjoy target shooting
* hunt wild game
* provide peace of mind in troubled times when law and order break down
The fewer guns there are per capita, the more useful they become for criminals. They are so useful, in fact, that people will spend a lot of money and subject themselves to costly and invasive regulations just to buy one gun. If no one found them useful, no one would find it necessary to ban them.
Perhaps you meant (and people should have charitably interpreted you as meaning) "I would consider it to have no legitimate uses" or "... no uses worth supporting".
