[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Re: The Economist: The Internet sells its soul

[Francis Hwang <sera@fhwang.net>]

Bram Dov Abramson wrote:

>sera@fhwang.net:
>>I love all this "The internet sells out" talk. As if it were ever
>>about something besides profit?
>
>Yes, it was certainly ever about something besides profit.  In fact,
>it was once heavily subsidised, highly unprofitable, highly
>undesigned for profitability, and generally not part of the
>commercial sphere.

Right. I was mostly responding to the tone of the Economist article, 
which assumes that the Internet did not exist before dot-coms. Like 
most media these days ...
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Francis Hwang
http://fhwang.net

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