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I think we are talking at cross-purposes here, in different perspectives, so let's stop.

• Klinky 15y ago
  Well 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 ago
    Yes, that's closer to my perspective: The strangling walled garden.