Comments on: Owing It All to AOL? http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/03/23/owing-it-all-to-aol/ What's Hot & What's Cooking in Scholarly Publishing - from the Society for Scholarly Publishing Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:34:25 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Todd Carpenter http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/03/23/owing-it-all-to-aol/#comment-2678 Todd Carpenter Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:30:16 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=3357#comment-2678 Maybe we all owe it to Spike: http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/1999-2/isp.html Or really we owe it all to DARPA: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/jcthomsonjr/web/j561/timeline.html I, for one, certainly do not miss the days of 2400 baud modems! Fortune favors the prepared mind. Not that one needs to be on the bleeding edge of technology to be successful, but understanding its ramifications and applying them quickly is one of the keys to success in any industry. That is where AOL succeeded (years ago) and where others are now leading. Maybe we all owe it to Spike: http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/1999-2/isp.html

Or really we owe it all to DARPA:
https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/jcthomsonjr/web/j561/timeline.html

I, for one, certainly do not miss the days of 2400 baud modems!

Fortune favors the prepared mind. Not that one needs to be on the bleeding edge of technology to be successful, but understanding its ramifications and applying them quickly is one of the keys to success in any industry. That is where AOL succeeded (years ago) and where others are now leading.

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