Episode 55 - Project Xanadu
Advent of Computing
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Project Xanidu
We see shades of these models in the modern internet. No one huge entity owns the internett spread out to network of smaller organizations. Users could come to a brick and mortar shop to use terminals connected to the an do network. Of course, users would pay a fee to their local franchise. Thus funding could come from a large network of backers,. each covering only a small chunk of a large overall cost. It isn't really a franchise model. But the internet has been able to grow so large because so people have chipped in on the large bill.
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