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>"On the positive side, the people who are enjoying the walled gardens are probably not the people who would've participated in the open web with much positive
by bogomipz 6y ago
>"On the positive side, the people who are enjoying the walled gardens are probably not the people who would've participated in the open web with much positive outcome anyway."
There's a significant number of people who were introduced to the web via the earlier walled gardens of AOL, Compuserve and Prodigy who then went on to both participate and contribute to the open web. Many were even motivated as a reaction against those earlier corporate walled-garden models.
- indymike 6y agoThe reason that the web won vs Prodigy, Compuware and AOL is that even in its early form, the internet as a whole was just better. Also, there were no wierd extra charges and your kids couldn't run up a bill for $300 in a night (like I did to my parents).
- treeman79 6y agoAh 10 hours a month limit. Oh how I got yelled at for being online for 2 hours one night.