[Web4lib] "The end of the Internet", and the telecoms may bring it

[Roy Tennant]

Or, before that even, how commercialization of the Internet was going  
to destroy it. At least that one was arguably closer to the mark.
Roy

On Feb 8, 2006, at 6:56 AM, Steve Cramer SMCRAMER wrote:

> Interesting point.
>
> In general, this story makes me nostalgic for the many "the  
> upcoming crash
> of the Web/end of the Internet" stories (often in Wired, when Wired
> mattered) that ran in the mid 1990's.
>
> Sigh, those were fun times.....
>
> --Steve
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> "D.H. Mattison" <dmattison at shaw.ca>
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> Perhaps this story from "The Nation" is the early 21st century  
> equivalent
> of
> that old urban legend the modem tax.
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> How ironic it would be if the current pricing model of Internet  
> service --
> a
> flat-fee rate that made the Net affordable and encouraged public  
> service
> points at no cost within community organizations such as libraries  
> -- were
> reversed and United States users started paying by the second or  
> minute.
>
> This story is also very specific to the situation in the United  
> States and
> circumstances in Canada and elsewhere are quite different.
>
> David Mattison
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