[Southack]

Legalizing the ability of citizens to use the Internet for profit is leading us back to serfdom?!

"Didn't make much difference."

Yeah, that whole "Internet Revolution" thing will never catch on... < /sarcasm >

Trading stocks on-line, selling books on-line, international auctions on-line, gambling on-line, porn on-line, doing your taxes on-line, news on-line, message forums on-line, corporate catalogs on-line, selling programming services on-line, on-line ads, email, et al...

Didn't do us much good?! Oh brother... What, like you've never even performed your own Google search??

[Dan Evans]

The World Wide Web would have happened without the government Internet. There were plenty of other national, non-government computer networks that could have hosted the Web if the feds hadn't allowed commerce on the Internet. It wasn't against the law to make a profit on them.

The big innovation was the invention of the web browser.