Dan Gillmor: 10 choices that were critical to the Net’s success
Dan Gillmor: “How did technologists, government officials and a host of other early players turn something with no obvious business model into a system that has become so intrinsic to the new century? A series of decisions proved critical – choices that helped turn data transport into a commodity business and put the power in users’ hands, not in the centralized telecommunications companies’ controlling grasp.” (Via Cory Doctorow.)