[cctalk] Re: Charles Stross, replay the bubble of 1995, alt history plus retrocomp

On 28/04/2024 01:14, Gavin Scott via cctalk wrote: No, but fore a very long time the phone network was run by a government-granted monopoly, Ma Bell. Hadn't the divestiture happened, AT&T had their own dinosaur ideas and would have done everything they could to enforce the output of those international committees... US was also the home of AOL and several other walled gardens. But OK, this discussion is really for the internet-history list, except it has been had so many times already... Julf