RayWPremium
join:2001-09-01
Layton, UT
kudos:1 | reply to fAcEtIOUs
Re: Keep mum and see what happens said by fAcEtIOUs:said by RayW:Ahhh...the commercialization of the net. Wonder what would have happened had the US government held on to the control instead of 'privatizing' it? We would still be using dial-up and the big internet players would be AOL and Prodigy. And the content providers would be libraries, universities, museums, and government. And the multimedia content available today would not exist. Who knows. If it were not for the universities and government much of the net would not be there, and if they were still in full charge it would probably be more robust than now but less pervasive. However, part of the success of the net today is the getting away from the original concept of a nuclear hardened system and into one that is a money maker.
Oh well, we can always point fingers at "What May Have Been", but the reality is, today the net (in the US) is mainly a bunch of commercial concerns with commercial entities concentrating on more wealth and power for the owners/big wigs. No concept of enlightened self interest and taking care of the customer there.
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