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Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Fri Jul 11 23:09:05 2014

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From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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> And, for the record, it's pretty widely acknowledge that "The World" 
> (Barry Shein) was the world's first commercial ISP - offering shell 
> access in 1989, and at some point started offering PPP dial-up 
> services.  As I recall, they were a UUnet POP.

yep.  and uunet and psi were hallucinations.  can we please not rewrite
well-known history?

or are you equating shell access with isp?  that would be novel.  unix
shell != internet.

randy

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