Comments on: BLOGGING FOR AN OPEN NET http://www.redbankgreen.com/2006/06/what_number_ple.html Serving greater Red Bank, NJ - a town square for an unsquare town Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:31:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: agent smith http://www.redbankgreen.com/2006/06/what_number_ple.html/comment-page-1#comment-37399 agent smith Sat, 24 Jun 2006 17:20:01 +0000 http://ads.redbankgreen.com/2006/06/what_number_ple.html#comment-37399 <p>I firmly believe the internet is the most revolutionary communications innovation since the printing press, and I don't think that's an exaggeration.</p> <p>Finally people were free to truly share ideas, outrage, yearnings, and yes, even files.</p> <p>The internet is a good form of instant gratification if there ever was one. It's not ideological to suggest it truly gives a voice and power to the people.</p> <p>The fist public internet communications running on the backbone of phone lines based on the old DARPA-NET were a breakthrough. But as people wanted to freely exchange their content and words, they ran into the brick wall of using phone-lines.</p> <p>Doomed from the start, it seems. I wish I was a fly on the wall of some of the Telco execs so I caould hear the $Cha-Ching$ going off when someone wanted to dial into, let's say, AOL's nearest modem which was outside of their local calling area. </p> <p>It just mushroomed from there. The explosiveness of the internet shadowed like a stalker by the TelCos and Cable companies.</p> <p>Does the greed ever end?</p> I firmly believe the internet is the most revolutionary communications innovation since the printing press, and I don't think that's an exaggeration.

Finally people were free to truly share ideas, outrage, yearnings, and yes, even files.

The internet is a good form of instant gratification if there ever was one. It's not ideological to suggest it truly gives a voice and power to the people.

The fist public internet communications running on the backbone of phone lines based on the old DARPA-NET were a breakthrough. But as people wanted to freely exchange their content and words, they ran into the brick wall of using phone-lines.

Doomed from the start, it seems. I wish I was a fly on the wall of some of the Telco execs so I caould hear the $Cha-Ching$ going off when someone wanted to dial into, let's say, AOL's nearest modem which was outside of their local calling area.

It just mushroomed from there. The explosiveness of the internet shadowed like a stalker by the TelCos and Cable companies.

Does the greed ever end?

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