marigolds
Gainfully employed, finally
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Saint Louis, MO
| No regulation?
The internet grew out of massive regulation. Lots of government funding, almost exclusively managed by government agencies, hundreds of regulations on allowable activities and strict control by participating institutions on usage. Standards group monitoring every discussion of what software should be used for what operations.
By the time commerical services were opened up (remember those regulations agaisnt commerical use), the structures and tools of the modern internet (including the pivotal telnet/gopher/WAIS/WWW showdown) were firmly settled and established such that commercial operations had to originally play along. Much of what is wrong with the internet now came along as a result of the opening up of the commerical side without the same strict regulation that was in place during the research era.
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