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How the Nerds Were Having A Perfectly Good Time Until The Businesspeople And Lawyers Showed Up And Ruined Everything

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Jerry KindallPerson was signed in when posted
07-21-2003
10:55 PM ET (US)
 The people who ruined the Internet are not the businesspeople and the lawyers, but the unwashed masses. The unwashed masses drew the businesspeople, who suddenly saw the Internet as a market worthy of exploitation, and created a need for the lawyers for the first time. Without the unwashed masses, neither businesspeople nor lawyers would have the slightest interest in the Internet.

Yes, I think you can blame it all on AOL.

(Tongue partially in cheek. A lot of the things I love about the Internet, e.g. Amazon, would not exist if the Internet consisted of a few tens of thousands of nerds.)
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roadknightPerson was signed in when posted
07-19-2003
08:01 PM ET (US)
 This could be the title of a talk about the history of the Internet over the past 8-10 years in general.
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07-18-2003
08:31 PM ET (US)
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