[1783] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
In any language, over any medium, at any time, any where.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow)
Wed Dec 25 13:34:51 1991
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 91 10:35:31 PST
From: the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow <geoff@fernwood.mpk.ca.us>
I agree with Dave Hughes the net is connecting up people. For me it goes
beyond that. The nets collection of interoperating people and technologies
enable me to keep intouch and informed over virtually any medium, at any
time and any location.
I'm traveling in the Greater Los Angeles area this week.
On the drive down, software back "home" in Menlo Park was processing news
wire feeds and sending headlines of breaking stories to an alpha-numeric
pocket pager.
Last night while logged into "home" via a PSINet dialup, I received an
on-line a holiday greeting note from a colleague who had no idea i was in
the area. After a "live" exchange of messages, we are scheduled to meet
for lunch later this week.
During the commute to dinner I received electronic mail via packet
radio. On the spot i was able to reply (someone else was driving).
I do these things everyday. Sometimes its good to sit back and marvel
at all the different mediums and networks information travels over
between its origin and destination.
Oh yes, and on weekends its great to "unplug" and be away from it all,
but where else could you have this sort of rich connectivity among
colleagues and technologies than on the Internet.
Geoff
