| Guy Van Belle on Sat, 26 Feb 2000 10:18:33 +0100 (CET) |
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| <nettime> Re: The old, government-controlled internet |
Well, if I remember well, there was no advertising, but it wasn't really controlled at all. First of all, governments in Europe were totally unaware of it, and secondly, only academics were on it, and in any case you could set up and do what you wanted! And put on your own server what you wanted! No one was claiming anything, while now I have 3 copyright claims running for some stupid beginning of the century poststamp gif reproductions I used for educational sites! -- Advancements in technology have meant that all manner of equipment is now available for reappropriation by whoever has the time to learn how to use redefine, misuse and rewire it http://fly.to/dbonanzah On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, David Mandl wrote: > >From an interview with Kevin O'Connor, CEO of Double Click (now under > attack for invasion of web-surfers' privacy) in today's Guardian > (U.K.): > > "There are people on the net who want to go back to the old days when > there was no advertising and it was government controlled." > > This was printed as a large pull-quote, btw. > > --Dave. > > -- > Dave Mandl > [email protected] > [email protected] > http://www.wfmu.org/~davem # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]