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Re: Commodore 64 Ultimate

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-=> Mortar M. wrote to Dr. What <=-

 MM> Well, that's pretty true of anything, right?

Yup.  But it acted as a filter to keep out the abrasive morons.

 MM> What a mess that was.  Although there were other services offering
 MM> Internet access, none had the marketing power that AOL had.

Marketing was only part.  Compu$serve was still there - but priced out of reach
of most people.

Then you had things like Bix, (my memory is failing, but there were a few more)
that offered text-based mainframe-like interfaces. But it wasn't a
point-and-drool interface.  So it still acted like a gate.

 MM> Suddenly you had a flood of online noobs causing (unintended) havoc.

"The September That Never Ended."

 MM> I remember
 MM> thinking that it would be a good idea to have people take some kind of
 MM> test, something like Hams have to do, to grant access to the Net.
 MM> Nothing difficult, just the basic questions showing they had at least a
 MM> working knowledge of how things worked.  If they'd done that, I think
 MM> we'd have a better class of users today.

Yes, but by that time that idea came to be, it was too late.  The number of
users had reached a critical mass and the companies that offered stuff to them
didn't want to reduce the number of eyeballs they got.


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