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> "take back what used to belongs to us in the first place" Could you elaborate about how we used to be the owners of the ISPs? Are you referring to the use o
by em3rgent0rdr 9y ago
> "take back what used to belongs to us in the first place"
Could you elaborate about how we used to be the owners of the ISPs?
Are you referring to the use of eminent domain laws to lay cable?
- droidist2 9y agoI think they mean the internet in general, built originally by the US government.
- em3rgent0rdr 9y agoARPANET infrastructure became redundant and obsolete after private entites made better and faster backbone links, and so was decommissioned in 1990.
- featherverse 9y agoHappily. The first ISPs were small BBSes operated by single SysOps, scattered across all the towns in America. There were a few corporate exceptions like CompuServ but the majority of the original consumer internet was completely owned and controlled by regular people with a passion for the technology.