By Sean Tudor on Monday, September 10, 2001 - 08:01 pm:
From http://www.3dfiles.com/ :
Bugger !
Quote:We have been informed today that 3DFILES.COM will be closed down. The current ad situation combined with the very expensive FTP costs makes it impossible for us to survive any longer. ZDNet has been kind enough to give us time to say good bye and even choose the day that we will close, September 14, our 4 Year Anniversary. Its been a hell of a ride since we started out doing this as just a hobby page and have grown to about 800,000 visitors per day. Those of you using the free email service, it should stay online for quite some time so don't fear. :)
By Anonymous on Monday, September 10, 2001 - 08:32 pm:
The thing that I don't understand is this,
the RAM costs are down, the CPU prices are down,
layoffs are up, the economy is sluggish,
why the hell is bandwidth still expensive?
ToothyByte
By Met_K on Monday, September 10, 2001 - 10:14 pm:
Because bandwidth is controlled by the telecommunications monopolies, need you ask?
By Jason McCullough on Tuesday, September 11, 2001 - 12:26 am:
It is? Sprint owns a ton of the long haul lines, and they're not a monopoly. Anyone who wants to run fiber is free to do so, I think.
It's expensive to lay cable, though.