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Firstly, suggesting dial-up ISPs failed because they had a centralized business structure makes no sense. That's like saying horse & buggy manufacturers went ou
by Klinky 15y ago
Firstly, suggesting dial-up ISPs failed because they had a centralized business structure makes no sense. That's like saying horse & buggy manufacturers went out of business due to their centralized business structure rather than the introduction of the car. Also for the record AOL is still around & those companies were successful for their time.
Second, I was speaking about things like ICANN, root DNS servers, Tier 1 providers & Client/Server architecture as being non-decentralized. Additionally some of the biggest services on the Internet are indeed centralized. Google, Facebook, iTunes. ISP options have also been drastically reduced over the last two decades.
- mikecane 15y agoI think we are talking at cross-purposes here, in different perspectives, so let's stop.
- Klinky 15y agoWell perhaps your point was that those services were walled gardens & incompatible with each other before the Internet took off. The Internet opening up with it's low cost ISPs & flexibility was the end of those walled garden services & many BBSs, true. That doesn't really have anything to do with the Internet being centrally planned or not. It was just planned to be more open than those other services.
- mikecane 15y agoYes, that's closer to my perspective: The strangling walled garden.