[9599] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Internet in a box
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Rarey)
Thu Jan 13 16:33:22 1994
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 94 12:08:47 -0800
From: Paul Rarey <Paul.Rarey@ssf-sys.dhl.com>
In-Reply-To: Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com>
To: Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com>, stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com,
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
On Jan 11, 11:59, Peter Deutsch wrote:
> Subject: Re: Internet in a box
} [ You wrote: ]
}
} >
} > > 2) Once the end user has this (or any other IP) capability what purpose
} > > does the BBS serve?
} >
} > None, one hopes. (Well, I hope.)
}
} I must disagree with these sentiments, since I think one
} of the single largest business opportunities coming up in
} the next couple of years will be in "packaging"
} information for specific user communities. BBSs are to me
} the canonical example of how to do this and I think they
} have a healthy future as "windows onto the net". Not just
} in providing connectivity, but in providing sorted,
} collated and processed information.
As we now see the growth in WAIS, WWW, gopher etc., the "thing" we
have all come to understand as "Bulletin Board" is vanishing. BBS is
metamorphosing into something else. The new paradigm is "navigation
tools" and "information servers". This is not the old BBS, although
the old definition may just be fine for what new technilogy is
actually being used to facilitate service location and
retrieval/request.
My take is the old BBS stuff is dead. We're in a new age, let's
flaunt it.
--
Best regards....,
/psr
