The Great Telecom Meltdown
by Fred R. Goldstein · first published 2005
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…market decide. The history of telecom is beyond insane. If you actually care about this stuff maybe you should learn more. This book is pretty esoteric but it gives the true history https://www.amazon.com/Great-Telecom-Meltdown-Fred-Goldstein... [0]https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304834704579401...
on “FCC weakens net neutrality rule in a prelude to larger rollbacks” ↗…Apple) https://archive.org/details/The_Home_Computer_Wars http://www.amazon.com/The-Home-Computer-Wars-Commodore/dp/09... 1985, History of Computing Technology, Michael Williams (Abacus to IBM360) http://www.amazon.com/History-Computing-Technology-2nd-Editi... 1985, The Great Telecom Meltdown, Fred Goldstein (USA deregulation) http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/telecom-archives/TELECOM_Digest_On... 2001, The Universal History of Computing, Georges Ifrah (Egypt to 1970s) http://www.amazon.com/The-Universal-History-Computing-Comput...…
on “Thoughts on the culture that gave birth to the personal computer (2013)” ↗…other sources, my dating on OC-48 deployment seems to be off by ~a decade (it would be more like late 1990s/early 2000s, e.g. [0] says 1999 for a very early use). I sourced this from Fred Goldstein, The Great Telecom Meltdown, but I don't have the book handy to double-check whether I misread something. It may be confusion over just where in the network OC-48 was being used. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_high-speed_Backbone_Netwo...
on “The Backbone: A History of the Internet” ↗