“Virtual Karma posts”:1 a great future conversation between a father and his son about the internet.
bq. *Son*: *Dad*, today in the history class they taught us about Internet and all the amazing stuff you could do on it.
bq. *Dad*: Those were good old days before the Verizon-net, Comcast-net, BellSouth-net…
bq. *Son*: If internet was such a good thing, why don’t we have it today?
bq. *Dad*: Because they decided to end it sometime around 2006.
bq. *Son*: But why did they do that?
bq. *Dad*: Apparently the telcos were not were not making enough money.
bq. *Son*: That’s bad. Why didn’t you guys pay the poor telcos?
bq. *Dad*: Oh! We did. Every month.
bq. *Son*: Then how come they didn’t make any money?
bq. *Dad*: They made a lot of money but I guess it was not enough. They wanted the big websites like Google, Amazon, eBay, MSN etc. to pay them and not use their network for free.
bq. *Son*: That’s so bad of Google to not pay them. I have lost all respect for Sergey and Larry. How can they expect a free ride? So convenient for them to make all that Ad dollars while running their algorithm from public libraries?
bq. *Dad*: Public Libraries?? What are you talking about? They had their own offices and datacenters.
“Read on for more”:1
[1]http://virtualkarma.blogspot.com/2006/02/dad-what-was-internet.html
Filed under: Network Neutrality, Policy
