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> A lot of dial-up ISPs (at all levels) went bankrupt and disappeared back around the turn of the millennium. This strikes me as a particularly poor counterexa
by owenmarshall 8y ago
> A lot of dial-up ISPs (at all levels) went bankrupt and disappeared back around the turn of the millennium.
This strikes me as a particularly poor counterexample, as those businesses were effectively fungible: outside of your local ISPs email address, there was nothing keeping you from stopping your service at 718-867-5309 and switching to 718-387-6962. The underlying infrastructure for either of those ISPs was handled by someone else.
- inferiorhuman 8y ago> The underlying infrastructure for either of those ISPs was handled by someone else. Last mile, yes. But there was plenty of ISP specific infrastructure.
- zrobotics 8y agoEh, unless 718-387-6962 was long distance. My family went 1.5 years w/o internet after the local ISP went bankrupt, since nobody offered access that wasnt long-distance. Yes, this was a rural area, but those businesses weren't quite as fungible as you think.