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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (2097)	3/16/1999 7:30:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28311

OT But it still wasn't interactive. But radio was interactive (as the gray-haired guys still squawking into ham radio boxes today will tell you), and the excitement about it in the 20s and 30s had nothing at all to do with the possibility of TV. A few years ago Wired ran a story that compared the excitement about radio in its early days to the current hoopla about radio. The early pioneers of radio saw its future very much as the pioneers of the web saw it and the internet in general. It's just that RCA and the other commercializers didn't see a way to make money from that community vision. Your main point is correct, I believe. The internet as a medium will bring about changes as significant as those weaved by radio. And you're also right that today's RCAs -- AOL and other commercializers -- will see to it that it's a change that is mostly of benefit to business. We may even see the interactive nature of the medium become less significant as we move forward (although it will never disappear entirely since it's a cheap and effective way to get folks to look at the ads).