[879] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Yet More Publicity for The Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Lee)
Fri Jun 28 10:46:48 1991
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 91 10:49:19 -0400
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: gordon@ftp.com (Gordon Lee)
Reply-To: gordon@ftp.com
From: "Erik E. Fair" (Your Friendly Postmaster) <fair@apple.com>
Subject: Yet More Publicity for The Internet
We're getting more and more public attention.
Does anyone think the Internet is ready for this?
Very sad, but,
I think the first thing to break under greater participation will be
mailing-lists like this where the information quality has ordinarily
been very high. The political landscape will change. Today on the
Internet we have something more akin to the politics of early America,
a society of gentleman farmers. In the future, who knows, the academics
who have traditionally been able to make things happen in a "correct"
fashion for the Internet will have to deal with representatives from
large corporate users, who will be promoting different interests.
On the other hand,
It will be nice for me to be able to tell laymen that I work at
a company which writes software to "connect IBM PC's to the Internet"
and not be greeted with a blank stare.
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