>>I'm already surprised how things have deteriorated in the Internet world in Internet speed.<<
You're right about the advertising-as-revenue business model, but there are so many others that are working. I found out a few weeks ago that you can buy prescription drugs online without having to see a doctor in person. You fill out a questionnaire and describe your symptoms and sign an affidavit that you're telling the truth, and an online doctor will write a prescription and the online drug company will send you the medicine. This does not include narcotics or other controlled substances. However, you can get diet pills (not speed!), Viagra, and Celebrex, which is a very expensive new NSAID (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory). Cheaper than the regular drugstore. Margins must be very thin but what's the overhead?
But what I was talking about in the post you responded to was demand for bandwidth. I finally networked the three home computers using the Linksys router you recommended, thank you and the others who recommended it, it works fine now but it took me a couple of days to set it up because RoadRunner won't help. So I had to spend a lot of time online researching it on different websites and newsgroups. This is a technology that people love when they finally get it working right. Even broadband satellite internet, that most people think is a crazy idea, is a technology that people love when they finally get it working right.
So I would disagree with what I think is your premise, that the Internet as a business is in trouble. Trying to sell something people can get for free was never a smart idea. If you sell infrastructure, or content that people are willing to pay for, or fungible goods that can be easily shipped, or facilitate transactions for a percentage, you can make money.
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