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Three Decades of the 26 Words That Built the Internet
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (630+ words) It started with a cruel prank on a message board. In 1996, the owner of a Seattle real estate magazine, Ken Zeran, sued AOL after anonymous users linked him to T-shirts trivializing the'tragic bombing'of an Oklahoma City government building. A US…...
Why Telephone-Age Rules Don't Work for the Internet Age
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (555+ words) During my career,I spent countless hours in windowless conference rooms debating the illogical idea of imposing rules developed for the telephone age onto the Internet." Study Group 3 was born back in 1928 as a working group to study telephone tariffs....
The Millennium Mess Over Internet Charging
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (755+ words) When I walked into a Montreal hotel lobby late one evening in October 2000, I was a newly minted American government employee, in my third week on the job. The Canadian city was the venue for the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU)…...