I admit i am not familiar with the capabilities of a Bloomberg terminal, but i have the impression that it is tied strictly to the Bloomberg service. What i wa

I admit i am not familiar with the capabilities of a Bloomberg terminal, but i have the impression that it is tied strictly to the Bloomberg service. What i was thinking more of was how we can bring up the likes of Facebook and Twitter while only maintaining a connection to our ISP. I guess one could go deeper down the stack, and compare packet switched and circuit switched. This in that to me a terminal connection suggests a circuit switched connection. Yes, later on one got the idea of the terminal server. But the fundamental idea of a terminal, at least at the time, was that of a very intimate connection between terminal and a (rather bulky) computer.