[2013] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Dialog
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Fri Jan 17 15:35:07 1992
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 92 15:33:55 -0500
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
To: bill@tuatara.uofs.edu
Cc: daveh@csn.org, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Bill Gunshannon's message of Fri, 17 Jan 92 7:48:12 EST <9201171251.AA08895@psi.com>
>From: Bill Gunshannon <bill@tuatara.uofs.edu>
>And this is my biggest fear. We already have some very good disjoint
>networks (Compuserve, Genie, Prodogy, BIX, etc.) I am afraid the way
>things seem to be going, rather than finally providing ubiquitous world-
>wide network, we are going to end out with even more squabling siblings
>to the existing ones.
May I reword that ever so slightly?
...we are going to end up with only a technology for
building networks. And we had that about 10 years
(and some untold millions of dollars) ago.
And, in all fairness, a very strong proof-of-concept that the
technology works. But was that the goal? I'm not sure any longer, to
be perfectly honest. Perhaps it was.
-Barry Shein
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