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Of course, back then everyone using a computer was doing so in the course of their employment and abuse of the system could result in being fired. Systems have become more closed partly because the anti-abuse function benefits strongly from centralisation so you don't have to duplicate effort whacking the same abusers.

> Sometimes I'd wish our internet would be more like the network the computers in Star Trek use.

I'm not ready for that many holodeck accidents.