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by EvanAnderson 246 days ago
There would have been a network like the Internet if the "Bellheads" in the ITU won. It would have been pay-by-the-byte-transferred.
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That's roughly the same thing as saying there would not have been an Internet if the ITU/OSI crowd won. I think that's quite right. The yahoos at Berkeley and a bunch of other U.S. universities won, and I can just imagine how the Europeans who had high falutin ideas about how the Internet should be felt, and it's delicious.