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On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Paul A Vixie wrote: > I'm not sure we're over the hump yet, economically. Right now if all we had > for content is the set of self supporting (profitable) sites who could afford > to pay metered rates for the packets they emit, it would slow down the growth > rate. Right. Many people don't know that the Internet is version 2 of the net. Version 1 of the net was metered from the transport structure right out to the content level. It flopped. > Let's take the golden eggs as they come out rather than killing the goose. What an apt description of version 1 of the net! P.S. version one used X.25 instead of IP and NAPLPS instead of HTML and was called the Videotex industry. Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: [email protected] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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