At 04:59 AM 7/28/00 -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
>David Honig wrote:
>>
>> When Napster goes down, there are going to be a lot of
>> folks switching to other file-exchange indices. What is
>> fascinating is that Napster has seeded disk drives with
>> tradable files, introduced a lot of people to the concept.
>>
>> Trilobites didn't make it, but they sure fed a lot of
>> critters whose descendants did.
>
>
>Is that "trilobites" for some software I've never heard of (good name -
Never heard of the software.
>why didn't I think ot that - I suppose someone will spell it
>"TrilloBytes" - yuck.) or "trilobites" the animals that dominated the
>ocean for 300 million years?
>
>Like, er, come back in 299 million years and say that...
The current profusion of file sharing tools is like the Cambrian
Radiation, when all these new body plans were being tried out,
probably because there were these nice new niches opening up.
Like networked computers.
Later, trilos did really well, judging from the volumes of remains they
left. Then something came along and found all these trilos to
eat. Mmm, tastes like lobster. Replaced them, selected for faster or
more armored designs. Descendants of the Replacements invented backbones &
email.
"Those ignorant of evolution are doomed to repeat it.." -Coelecanth the Elder
