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Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic?
From: Barry Shein <bzs () world std com>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:30:32 -0400
On September 14, 2010 at 00:49 williams.bruce () gmail com (Bruce Williams) wrote:
And what does this "appeal to the ancient wisdom" have to do with technology and business today anyway?
The article claimed that AT&T is claiming (to the FCC I think it was) that net non-neutrality was an early design goal of the internet, so they should be allowed to do whatever it is they want to do. Well, of course it was, only big research sites got IMPs with real 56k connections. Little guys like Apple, e.g., had to live on X.25 links from CSNET. BU was hooked up for a while via a 9600bps "cypress" link (a Vax 11/725* later Sun3/50 imp-a-like, via a serial port.) And we won't even talk about who got /8s. AT&T got 2 if I remember right though that company had no relationship to this AT&T which is just a rename of SBC after they bought some AT&T assets which owned the original trademark which is kind of like the old "if my grandmother had wheels they'd call her a trolley car" but I digress. As Jimmy Carter said: Life isn't fair. But that doesn't necessarily implore one to make it *more* unfair. * Never heard of a Vax 11/725? Then you are truly blessed. -- -Barry Shein The World | bzs () TheWorld com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD | Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die | Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*
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- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic?, (continued)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? JC Dill (Sep 14)
- RE: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? Nathan Eisenberg (Sep 14)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? Dave Sparro (Sep 14)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? Owen DeLong (Sep 14)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? Barry Shein (Sep 13)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? Barry Shein (Sep 13)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? Sean Donelan (Sep 13)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? Michael Dillon (Sep 13)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? Fred Baker (Sep 14)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? Bruce Williams (Sep 14)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? Barry Shein (Sep 14)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? Steven Bellovin (Sep 14)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? Bill Stewart (Sep 17)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? Bill Stewart (Sep 17)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? Steven Bellovin (Sep 19)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? Sean Donelan (Sep 13)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? William Allen Simpson (Sep 14)
- RE: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? gordon b slater (Sep 15)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic? Chris Boyd (Sep 16)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Joe Greco (Sep 16)
- Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 16)