On 28/04/2024 01:14, Gavin Scott via cctalk wrote:
Fortunately, in the US the net wasn't run by the Post Office
No, but fore a very long time the phone network was run by
a government-granted monopoly, Ma Bell. Hadn't the divestiture
happened, AT&T had their own dinosaur ideas and would have
done everything they could to enforce the output of those
international committees...
US was also the home of AOL and several other walled gardens.
But OK, this discussion is really for the internet-history list,
except it has been had so many times already...
Julf
