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Thursday, September 12, 2002

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/4029770.htm

10 choices that were critical to the Net's success
Dan Gillmor, Mercury News Technology Columnist

In our modern, corporate culture, the rise of the Internet is a happy accident. In its roots and growth, says Scott Bradner, the Net never had a business model. How did technologists, government officials and a host of other early players turn something with no obvious business model into a system that has become so intrinsic to the new century? A series of decisions proved critical -- choices that helped turn data transport into a commodity business and put the power in users' hands, not in the centralized telecommunications companies' controlling grasp....

 


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