> The idea of packet switching as a way make a communication network more robust came to Paul Baran a few years earlier, I remember back in the days when the i

> The idea of packet switching as a way make a communication network more robust came to Paul Baran a few years earlier, I remember back in the days when the internet was first starting to happen, seeing comments about packet switching. The gist of what I recall was that there was lots of dark fiber, and folks like AT&T were trying to prevent it from being used and force slow/expensive packet switching on us, billing us per-packet or something. it is hard to dig up any article about this however.