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The government decided to give it away.

While the Internet - then Arpanet - was a technological success, it had become overwhelmed by social use. The government decided to give it away. AT&T turned down the offer to take it over. In what ultimately may have been a kind of wisdom,

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The government decided to give it away.

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  1. While the Internet- then Arpanet- was a technological success, it had become overwhelmed by social use. The government decided to give it away.

  2. AT&T turned down the offer to take it over. In what ultimately may have been a kind of wisdom, • they couldn’t see a business application for what appeared to be an academic social scene. • The government ended up setting the net free, to a large extent, with the proviso that it only be used for research purposes.

  3. No one thought the net would end up going anywhere– • not least of which because people conversing with one another over social networks seemed to be a financial dead end.

  4. The net was compared to Citizens Band radio— • A two-year fad that faded even before a movie about the truck driver’s lingo and culture could be shot and released.

  5. My own first internet book was actually cancelled by the publisher in 1992 because they thought the net would be “over” by 1993, when the book would finally hit the shelves.

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