Net Neutrality. What good is a free operating system without a network?

[Ben Scott]

On 5/10/06, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> I'm old enought to remember before web browsers when I was in college.

  It wasn't *that* long ago.  :)

> Arpanet was originally for government and research.  No commercial traffic
> was supposed to travel on it.

  Right.  Back then, the "ISP" would have been the university, or some
government agency.  As you note, things were even more restricted back
then.  No commercial use (in theory), and a somewhat exclusive nature.
 The current idea that you can plunk down some cash and get an
Internet connection came latter.  Back then, you needed to "know
someone", so to speak.  If the local admins decided your usage was
getting in the way of the "real users", I'd guess they would probably
just disable your access.

> It took faith to buy something before eBay!

  Still does.  ;-)

-- Ben