Worth reading:
Fractals Reemerge in the New Math of the Internet
by Gary Taubes
Science Magazine, Volume 281, Number 5385 Issue of 25 Sep 1998, pp. 1947 - 1948
Vern Paxson mentioned a number of times. AT&T researchers have shown that
IP traffic over the Internet is fractal in nature. Could be soon we will
have an Internet Erlang value.
-Hank