29 Aug
1996
29 Aug
'96
11:07 a.m.
If we meter things so that free content is too expensive to provide, and things like Alta Vista (and Gatekeeper.dec.com for that matter) disappear, will the net still be attractive to newbies? Will ISP customer bases still grow?
No, but another 'net will be. Maybe not "the Internet", but my bet is that the pay-for-use-and-better-service 'net will be the subset of "the Internet", not "the Internet" itself. Btw, once people get connected I'm convinced you could turn off web use and they'd still stick around for < $20/month. But I don't think it'll come to that. Avi