[gurps] Re: Internet on blue planet and like worlds

[Tom Sparks]

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From: David Scheidt <dmscheidt at gmail.com>
To: The GURPSnet mailing list <gurpsnet-l at sjgames.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 31 December, 2008 2:02:11 PM
Subject: Re: [gurps] Re: Internet on blue planet and like worlds

>>On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:
>>> From: "Onno Meyer" <Onno.Meyer at gmx.de>
>>><snip>
>> <Snip>

>Eh.  It's last-mile bandwidth that's the problem.   There's huge
>amounts of backbone that are still nowhere near capacity.  Last mile
>is lagging, at least in the US, for largely non-technical reasons, but
>rather ones of monopolies trying to extract rents from their product.
>Cable companies made a huge mistake, and adopted a shitty design to
>provide bandwidth to their customers, and are now fighting to stop
>their customers from using it.  Additionally, they'd much rather
>charge outrageous prices to provide content, then allow users to get
>it from someone else.  Telcos are hampered by having a huge installed
>base of copper wires, and wanting to protect the rents they can
>extract from them (and of course, they'd also rather sell you
>pay-per-view, than allow you to get to content elsewhere.)  None of
>that matters in the longer term though.

the internet of the late 1970 to late 1980 was university funded networks
in the late 1980 corporation start funding the internet
the the Dot-com bubble happened (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble)
witch lead to a lot of dark fiber (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fiber) cables
the corporation driven network has stop the progress to some point
the internet need to be given back to the communtiy for next cycle



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