[9603] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Internet in a box
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott W Brim)
Thu Jan 13 22:58:03 1994
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 22:57:20 -0500
To: com-priv@psi.com (compriv)
From: Scott W Brim <swb1@cornell.edu>
I would predict that BBSs will indeed flourish, *but* with widespread
internet access just about mandated, what will flourish even more is
MUD-like environments -- small real-time shared virtual realities, each
with a specialized niche, dedicated to the same sorts of things BBSs
do, but more so.
At 16:13 1/13/94 -0700, Dave Hughes wrote:
>Well my take is that your take misses the fact that will probably
>be *more* 'BBS's in the future than ever before. And will do things
>that direct connection to the Internet cannot do, and will do it,
>when needed, any old time. As I sent to Peter:
