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I'd prefer not to live in the AOL/Prodigy/Compuserve blackhole that was the Internet before "the original sin that the web was free." Originally, it wasn't free
by politician 4y ago
I'd prefer not to live in the AOL/Prodigy/Compuserve blackhole that was the Internet before "the original sin that the web was free." Originally, it wasn't free.
I do agree with you that it would have been better if the payment-related features of the HTTP spec weren't just dead-on-arrival stubs.
- JohnFen 4y agoBut the internet before AOL/Prodigy/Compuserve was pretty awesome. And free (aside from connection costs -- but that's no different than today).