[12755] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: InfoBahumbugBahn, Internet, Convergence and us
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles R Fidelman)
Sat May 28 00:37:59 1994
Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 09:12:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: Miles R Fidelman <fidelman@civicnet.org>
To: Daniel P Dern <ddern@world.std.com>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <199405261350.AA18073@world.std.com>
On Thu, 26 May 1994, Daniel P Dern wrote:
> One question I get asked a lot (and probably you folks do too)
> by non-Internauts is "will this infohighway stuff mean the end of the
> Internet?"
>
> Part of my answer is, "It doesn't have to."
>
> <lots more ommitted>
Its worth noting that the Internet has just continued to grow despite:
i. widespread deployment of X.25 networks by the telcos (anybody out
there using them?)
ii. the OSI vs. TCP/IP wars (anybody out there using OSI yet?)
iii. Compuserve, Delphi, AOL, MCImail, ATTmail, Prodigy, ... (all of
which started out isolated and then were forced by market pressure to
become part of the Internet)
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