M$ trying to license the Internet

[Alma J Wetzker]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On 11/07/2004 12:01 PM, David Bandel wrote:
> 
>> This is just too typical M$:
>>
>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1714680,00.asp
>>
>> Hell, if anyone was _stupid_ enough to sign this.  Just think, only M$
>> could modify Internet protocols.  The Internet would die overnight.
>>
>> This from the last company on earth to discover there was an Internet.
>>  And I remember well an Internet with no M$.  Those were the days. Too 
>> bad we can't go back.
> 
> 
> Alas, it was fun back in 1994 when there was no spam, no banner ads, and 
> virtually no .coms.
> 

Not much in the way of web.  If you could get a shell account, it cost a 
fortune.  ftp or gopher for files.  14,400 dial-up connections.  Yeah, those 
were the days.

     -- Alma