Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

[George Herbert <george.herbert () gmail com>]

> On Jul 11, 2014, at 10:31 PM, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
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> On Jul 11, 2014, at 8:18 PM, Randy Bush <randy () psg com> wrote:
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> > > > And, for the record, it's pretty widely acknowledge that "The World" 
> > > > (Barry Shein) was the world's first commercial ISP - offering shell 
> > > > access in 1989, and at some point started offering PPP dial-up 
> > > > services.  As I recall, they were a UUnet POP.
> > > yep.  and uunet and psi were hallucinations.  can we please not rewrite
> > > well-known history?
> > > or are you equating shell access with isp?  that would be novel.  unix
> > > shell != internet.
> >
> > btw, not do denigrate what barry did.  a commercial unix bbs connected
> > to the real internet was significant.  the left coasties were doing free
> > stuff, the well, community memory, ...  and barry created a viable bbs
> > commercial service which still survives (i presume).  a significant
> > achievement.
> >
> > randy
>
> Not to take away from Barry, but around that same time, some of us left coasts were also helping to build Netcom as a 
> viable commercial entity providing shell and later PPP and dedicated line access (DS0, T1).
>
> Owen


...and CRL, and shortly after Netcom came Scruznet, and  ...

(Still giggling at how many times CRL got the intersection of Market/Geary/Kearny dug up in the early 90s bringing 
fiber in...).


George William Herbert
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