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Article #41791Re: Canadian ISP Makes Really Bad Decision
From: Carter Lee
Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 13:39
Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 13:39
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Dennis Barbier wrote: > > What kind of a shit head dork are you??? > > 10 Years ago the bandwidth costs on BELL's end would be up astronomically to > supply people with 14.4 bps access. 10 Years ago the internet was hardly > available in the public domain. 10 years ago a 386 computer cost thousands > of dollars, nevermind the cost of a commercial server that needs to run > 24x7x365. In 1992 while you had the choice, commercial servers were very > expensive pieces of equipment. > > The fact of the matter is while you rant on about all the 'new' crap has > been going on - every day it gets cheaper for Bell to provide this service. > Dont you remember when long distance was a buck a minute? When a 200mb hard > drive was $300 dollars?? Hell Dennis I can remember when long distance wasn't even available in some places and a 200mb hard drive was just a gleam in some engineer's eye. :^) I do agree with your comments particularly those about the ever decreasing cost for ISP to provide internet service. Carter PS: BTW I copied the first post in this thread and sent it to Sympatico for comment. So far none. CL
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