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The old old internet (1969 to 1992) banned all commercial activity including of course all advertisements. (The ban was imposed by the US government, but most
by hollerith 3y ago
The old old internet (1969 to 1992) banned all commercial activity including of course all advertisements.
(The ban was imposed by the US government, but most or all of the internet's backbone was under US jurisdiction back then, resulting in the ban's scope being global in practice, or at least that is my guess: I only ever used the internet in the US. The main reason for the ban was lobbying by telecommunications providers who objected to the US government's competing with them for commercial customers.)
The old old internet was very cool, but of course most people had no idea it existed, and with the exception of the web (which was quite small in 1992) consisted entirely of terminal user interfaces in my experience.
Despite the ban on commercial activity, by 1992, the internet was the largest network of computers in the world.
- aurareturn 3y agoYes but it was very small and not sustainable. Today’s internet is probably much better than the internet from the 70s - 90s. I was referring to the 2000s to 2010 internet where creators often built useful free tools and websites around making a living through ads.
- hollerith 3y agoI disagree with your "not sustainable". I think by "very small", you mean to imply it was not scaleable, and I disagree with that, too. Specifically, most users pay a monthly fee to an internet service provider; this fee is all that would be needed to fund or sustain an internet along the lines of the old old internet -- without ads -- even if the old old internet was scaled to modern numbers of users. Now you are going to try to tell us that the old old internet must have sucked compared to the modern ad-supported internet, right?