The New York Times network must be getting slow, too. They note in a recent article that:

For months there has been a rising chorus of alarm about the surging growth in the amount of data flying across the Internet. The threat, according to some industry groups, analysts and researchers, stems mainly from the increasing visual richness of online communications and entertainment — video clips and movies, social networks and multiplayer games.

Note that cause of this is Video, and lots of it: video downloading, media filesharing, multimedia rich games, and increasingly, Internet based television.

In 2007, YouTube alone accounted for more traffic than the entire Internet carried in the year 2000.

And projections are video traffic will grow more than 50% annually over the near future. All this despite the fact that editing video on a computer is still hard, still slow, and still something that most people don’t do very well even when they do it. Imagine if video editing were as easy as PowerPoint? One day, it will be.