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Internet & Society: The Technologies and Politics of Control (Spring 2019)
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The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain, Yale University Press (2008) (Battle of the Networks).

Read “Battle of the Networks” (19-35)

John Bowers

The internet we have today was far from an inevitability at the time of its inception. Backed by government funding and an army of geeks, it did battle with a number of competing closed online service providers like AOL and CompuServe. What made the open internet special? Why did it win out?

The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain, Yale University Press (2008) (Battle of the Networks).

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