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> Eh, many times, especially in the 95-97 era overcommit was not optional... It's not an all-or-nothing switch. Obviously the less ethical/more greedy players

> Eh, many times, especially in the 95-97 era overcommit was not optional... It's not an all-or-nothing switch. Obviously the less ethical/more greedy players overcommitted more than others.

Alupis 3y ago
Not everything you disagree with is greed or unethical. The parent clearly explained physical constraints of small dial-up ISP's and their Telco providers. The early internet and it's ISP's were vastly different than today. It wasn't uncommon for your local city to have several, or dozens of small startup ISP's available. Few, if any, were big enough to just let anyone do whatever they wanted - these were tying up phone lines, a more-or-less physical resource at the time.