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Yeah, I tend to think that we're all looking for an alternative to the looming destruction of the Internet that is inevitably going to happen when Net-neutralit
by fit2rule 9y ago
Yeah, I tend to think that we're all looking for an alternative to the looming destruction of the Internet that is inevitably going to happen when Net-neutrality dies.
As an older user, I'd love it if we could figure out a way to resurrect Minitel/Teletext and use it as a way of routing around the damage that is coming from the political classes.
- zer0tonin 9y agoMinitel wasn't exactly net neutrality friendly.
- ekianjo 9y ago> for an alternative to the looming destruction of the Internet that is inevitably going to happen when Net-neutrality dies. The Minitel was the archetype of service centralization with a single hardware provider. Hardly a good case for Net neutrality.
- walshemj 9y agoyes it was the old central state controlled telephone system model a bit like OSI x.400 and x.500 where supposed to work.
- llsf 9y agoYes, very centralized, but in early 80's with telco companies having pretty much a monopoly on their own respective market, and practically no standard hardware, the Minitel was the best that could be done to get a large chunk of the population to go online, make safely online transactions, exchange messages, before the Web. Today, 35 years after with what we know, with a deregulated telco environment, with internet protocols and corresponding hardware, sure, the Minitel is not ideal for net neutrality. I think it was still a good step, and looking back, not a too shabby execution either. Now 35 years later, the market brought Android smartphone, which are the new commodity for people to go online.
- digi_owl 9y agoI think a better option would be BBSs and Fidonet (the latter still in operation, iirc).
- agumonkey 9y agoI think one french dude, once a fidonet hoster, is federating independant ISP now.