Yes, that was a hoot to read in the article, given the system the authors set forth as an example of the glories of government intervention: Minitel, which hung

Yes, that was a hoot to read in the article, given the system the authors set forth as an example of the glories of government intervention: Minitel, which hung on long past its obsolescence. Another example is what the Deaf had to deal with for a long time for communication (I hope that past tense is correct): the "TTY" aka "TDD", a horrid device with a built-in acoustic coupler (remember 300 baud?) using 5-bit Baudot code (no lower case, and shift characters to switch between letters and digits) with a cheesy seven-segment green LED display that could show a whole (short) line of text at a time.