[11706] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Internet -The Band-Aid Network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Williams)
Fri Apr 15 00:09:58 1994
From: sdw@meaddata.com (Stephen Williams)
To: STAPLETON@bpa.arizona.edu (The future Ross Stapleton-Gray)
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 10:54:35 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, kgibbs@world.std.com
In-Reply-To: <940414035631.2040530b@BPA.ARIZONA.EDU> from "The future Ross Stapleton-Gray" at Apr 14, 94 03:56:31 am
>
> > I feel the Intenet is temporary until someone realizes that its
> > inefficient!
>
> Kelly's partly right--and totally wrong.
>
> Kelly, your mistake is in thinking of the Internet as something that
> any one somebody (a Compuserve, an AOL, or even a Bill Gates) could
> develop an alternative to. But the Internet, given that it's both
> an extant thing (but a pretty fuzzy one--a loose collaboration of
> well over a million computers, and many thousands of separately
> conceived, implemented and administered networks) and an *idea* (the
> TCP/IP protocols, and the spirit of interconnecting that which the
> protocols allow to be interconnected), is no such service. Until
> you understand why Internet isn't Compuserve, you'll not understand
> why it can be godawful inefficient and still the greatest social
> miracle of the last decade.
>
> Ross
What he said!
Wow, send this to Wired, Ross (both messages). Very succinct.
That last sentence is going on my cube wall...
sdw
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