AT&T did a very good job making the phone system widely available and phone equipment very, very reliable. I'm sure they would have done the same for the Inter

AT&T did a very good job making the phone system widely available and phone equipment very, very reliable. I'm sure they would have done the same for the Internet, given the chance. Obviously things didn't work out that way, and now it's actually more reliable to carry around expensive and rather-easily-breakable computers with you. It's kind of surprising if you think about just how fragile a laptop is.