You would wait and wait and you would hear the beeping and chirping, and then most of the time, you would get the message, please wait, the server is busy.Īnd so, in that environment, it was almost impossible to grow an e-business, where people needed to click and they needed to get products or information fast. If you remember, you would dial into a Web site, and, you know, these days, it would probably seem like an eternity. The Internet is a distributed system, and it still is today, and so instead of having one tunnel through which information can be processed and content can be sent, there's this whole sort of tangled web of roots through which all this content passes every day.Īnd, basically, Danny wrote a set of algorithms for his thesis at MIT, and he came up with this idea that, by using math, combined with theoretical computer science, he could have some practical application to the Internet, and he could end what at the time was being called the worldwide wait. Well, I think everybody, if you used the Internet back then, or You tried to, in the mid-'90s, the biggest impediment to the growth of the Internet was really this problem of congestion.
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