[885] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
For the person collecting quotes about networking...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Sutterfield)
Mon Jul 1 09:58:41 1991
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 91 09:56:36 -0400
From: Bob Sutterfield <bob@morningstar.com>
To: bob@aecom.yu.edu
Cc: com-priv@uu.psi.com
In-Reply-To: Bob Lummis's message of Mon, 1 Jul 91 9:49:14 EDT <9107011349.AA17491@alsys1.aecom.yu.edu>
Reply-To: bob@morningstar.com (Bob Sutterfield)
From: Bob Lummis <bob@aecom.yu.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 91 9:49:14 EDT
"The 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously
considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently
of no value to us."
-Western Union internal memo, 1877
It probably goes without saying (though, of course, I'll say it
anyway) that WU was recently bought by the phone company.
