>Alain: You were an Internet server on a serial line?
>Performance was good? How did you handle the dynamic
>IP addressing so as to maintain the same URL for your
>server?
Thank god, no! I'm just doing dial-up and surfing via an ISDN adapter
hokked to my Mac via the serial port.
>1. The Internet would still be a marginal phenomenon
>if we had had to pay long-distance charges, and usage
>fees to web-site broadcasters .. like in the old
>CompuServe days;
It wasn't that bad, at least when I came to CI$ (around 1995, I think).
Yes, external servers used to cost additional money for added content (one
of the reasons why I never visited Ziff-Davis), but if I compare it to
long-distance charges it was still a lot cheaper.
>3. They will probably use the same strategy as they
>used for antenna-broadcasted television. Free to
>anyone who has a TV because it is financed by
>advertising ;
I'm not sure it'll work that way. The companies whose lines you're using
when navigating the net don't have an ability to add commercials yet... But
I sure hope it'll stay free of additional charges, although that may mean
that we'll have to depend on large companies to provide the lines free of
charge. In a apocalypse scenario, I could envision the internet collapsing
due to budget cuts in big companies like UUnet (they provide most of the
European backbone AFAIK).
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
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