Zvi S. Rosen
@zvirosen.bsky.social
Associate Professor, UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law
Copyright & Trademark Law (especially but not exclusively history), plus bankruptcy/business law and property. Among other things, but that's probably what I'm here for.
Copyright & Trademark Law (especially but not exclusively history), plus bankruptcy/business law and property. Among other things, but that's probably what I'm here for.
See, also, rankings of ISPs from 1997, treating ISP as a different category from portals like AOL: web.archive.org/web/19970802...
CNET reviews - comparative reviews - ISP review
web.archive.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
See, also, rankings of ISPs from 1997, treating ISP as a different category from portals like AOL: web.archive.org/web/19970802...
It's not true though! There were plenty of conduit ISPs in 1998 and indeed much earlier. Admittedly AOL was still the biggest game in town but for instance AT&T Worldnet had a million subscribers in 1998. Source: www.zdnet.com/article/what...
Whatever happened to AT&T's WorldNet?
AT&T's reported $19 billion bid to buy America Online this week has many observers wondering: Whither WorldNet?WorldNet, the long-distance giant's own online service, launched in 1996 with the promise...
www.zdnet.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It's not true though! There were plenty of conduit ISPs in 1998 and indeed much earlier. Admittedly AOL was still the biggest game in town but for instance AT&T Worldnet had a million subscribers in 1998. Source: www.zdnet.com/article/what...
I wasn't too familiar with George Schiffer, but there's a nice bio with anecdotes here: www.adampwhite.com/westgrandblo...
Let George Do It — Adam White
REPRESENTING ‘A SMALL RECORD COMPANY’ IN DETROIT The man who helped to deliver Motown’s first film soundtrack album had a backstory like few others at the company. &...
www.adampwhite.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I wasn't too familiar with George Schiffer, but there's a nice bio with anecdotes here: www.adampwhite.com/westgrandblo...
Update: Here it is: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
dl.acm.org
October 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Update: Here it is: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
I'm not sure if this would have been better or worse. My instinct is "better" but honestly software industries seem to be doing okay. But there serious proposals in the late 60s and early 70s to do this, but by the late 70s and the CONTU report the train had probably left the station.
October 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I'm not sure if this would have been better or worse. My instinct is "better" but honestly software industries seem to be doing okay. But there serious proposals in the late 60s and early 70s to do this, but by the late 70s and the CONTU report the train had probably left the station.
Also pretty cool to see the cover of ComputerWorld from 1968.
October 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Also pretty cool to see the cover of ComputerWorld from 1968.
Interesting. I think the ones in Eltra v Ringer were rejected.
October 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Interesting. I think the ones in Eltra v Ringer were rejected.