[ih] ARPANET pioneer Jack Haverty says the internet was never finished

[Brian E Carpenter]

Miles,


On 04-Mar-22 05:18, Miles Fidelman via Internet-history wrote:

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> Well... probably because carriers were trying to charge by the
> bit/packet, and vendors were trying to sell centralized, proprietary
> videoconferencing services.  Interoperable multicast makes it all too
> easy to distribute such things.  (Consider the demise of CuSeeMe and IRC
> - can't see that Zoom or the myriad of chat services improve on the
> originals.)  Sigh...

Zoom has a user interface that even Fine Arts professors can use.
Apart from that, it's nothing really new, but that's enough.

Same explanation for all the browser-based chat services.

    Brian