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TechDirt: Reports Of The Web's Death Are Greatly Exaggerated Through Lies, Damn Lies & Statistics

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
August 22, 2010
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Submitted by Hank on Sun, 08/22/2010 - 11:39
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Lots of folks seem to be talking about the latest linkbait Wired story claiming that the web is dead, based on this graphic (built off of Cisco data):

TechDirt has the real scoop

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