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To: i-node who wrote (879381)	8/11/2015 1:41:04 PM
From: Cautious_Optimist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570520

Nope. Exactly the opposite is true. What killed the disruptive innovators on the net was a lack of paying customers. Everyone loved "free" -- and investment capital got burned up - but often after the original investors had sold to fools. For every DOMINANT Google whose "innovation" was selling our privacy before we knew what was happening, there are a hundred better-mousetrap companies that failed. Also, the dominance of the politically and economically entrenched oligopoly of bandwidth killed innovations. Similar to cellular data, the Telco/ Comcast model kept/keeps America behind. Plenty of people you don't care about cannot afford broadband. True, cheap ubiquity that would have increased the value of the whole pie as universal telephone service once did before the "carriers" became a deregulated racket and conspiracy to collude imperfectly. Porn could be monetized, so it was a key driver of multimedia and bradband innovation. I guess you could say it created jobs... for porn stars.

To: i-node who wrote (879381)	8/11/2015 2:23:59 PM
From: combjelly	1 Recommendation Recommended By tejek Respond to of 1570520

This, of course, is factually incorrect. You need to resitst the urge to claim I am wrong when I am actually correct. The Internet was created for the reasons that I have stated. It was later extended to universities that had no connection to DARPA and then to companies using unix so they could use Usenet for unix support. Which is how I got onto the Internet in 1984. So there was demand. Maybe not to the extent that there is now, but it was there. Had it been up to government the Internet would still be where it was in 1990. Total BS. It was the HPCA that made it possible for the Internet as we know it. If for no other reason: Gore's legislation also helped fund the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, where a team of programmers, including Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, created the Mosaic Web browser, the commercial Internet's technological springboard. 'If it had been left to private industry, it wouldn't have happened,' Andreessen says of Gore's bill, 'at least, not until years later.' [11]Gore reiterated the role of government financing in American success in a 1996 speech [12] en.wikipedia.org There were plenty of people on the Internet long before Amazon or Google became prominent.Remember the dot com bubble? Amazon and Google survived that, but didn't become the force on the Internet they are now until after that bubble burst. You are just making shit up. Again.