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========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 09:43:44 -0500
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: "G. L. Sicherman" <gls@ATPSOL.CVU.LUCENT.COM>
Subject: common carrier?
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
Users of early commercial time-sharing systems could not talk with each other over their terminals. Many of us were annoyed by the lack of an obvious and natural facility. Around 1969 I wrote a program that unintentionally provided this ability, and it was eagerly adopted by those who knew about it.
It was rumored that the computer companies would not provide programs for this because they feared being regulated by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission as common carriers.
Was there any truth to this rumor?
--G. L. Sicherman
work: sicherman@lucent.com
home: colonel@monmouth.com
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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: "G. L. Sicherman" <gls@ATPSOL.CVU.LUCENT.COM>
Subject: common carrier?
______________________________________________________________________
Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
Users of early commercial time-sharing systems could not talk with each other over their terminals. Many of us were annoyed by the lack of an obvious and natural facility. Around 1969 I wrote a program that unintentionally provided this ability, and it was eagerly adopted by those who knew about it.
It was rumored that the computer companies would not provide programs for this because they feared being regulated by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission as common carriers.
Was there any truth to this rumor?
--G. L. Sicherman
work: sicherman@lucent.com
home: colonel@monmouth.com
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