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Disagree on Internet. The demand for fast information exchange was already apparent with phone networks, telegraphs, and the mail. Once we had general computin
by kortilla 3y ago
Disagree on Internet. The demand for fast information exchange was already apparent with phone networks, telegraphs, and the mail.
Once we had general computing, there was going to be something to fill the void if DARPA didn’t fund TCP/IP. We would probably be dealing with AT&T addressing schemes instead…
- piva00 3y agoThere was going to be something to fill the void, the questions there are "when?" and "for how much?", no private company would deploy novel inter-networks communication for cheap since it was an unproven technology. No private company would want to make it open for competitors to use the network, monopolistic tendencies don't naturally go away in the private sector, much the opposite.