I grew up in central New Jersey during the breakup of the Bell System mandated on January 8, 1982. I have a keen insights on how this played out and what could have been and what happened. Over the next 48 months the US will enter into the biggest corporate breakups in history.pic.twitter.com/vyV8V9SHiZ
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Replying to @BrianRoemmele
I hope you’re right Brian. See “Curse of Bigness” by
@superwuster (popularized “net neutrality”) for a compelling antitrust legal argument.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/books/review-curse-of-bigness-antitrust-law-tim-wu.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share …1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @tomlkn @superwuster
Thomas, thank you sir! I love this book. You know the issue is the breakup makes technical and legal sense. The problem is this will not be the advice the leaders of these companies want to hear. And thus they will follow AT&T to the bitter end thinking they are Microsoft.
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AT&T sure got around. They signed our paychecks on the Voyager 2 Encounter with Jupiter project at JPL. Not sure how they were involved, but the entire floor where I worked above Mission Control was filled with floor-to-ceiling sized computers. We stored all the data on reels. /1
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Replying to @IdaMayFerrin @BrianRoemmele and
In-between the times Voyager sent data back (every 4 hours), we worked on another project that AT&T also had some part in: converting ARPANET email systems to Internet usability. We'd get so excited when our beta test emails took only 20 minutes to hit all the nodes. Magic! /2
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Ida, wow this is amazing. I have heard this from others that world at JPL. It was amazing times.
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