[IP] Re: AT&T's 1993 "You Will" Ads -- no thanks to ATT!

[David Farber <dfarber@cs.cmu.edu>]

I was at Bell Labs then and we had read all the available material re  
packet switching  experiments etc. We  request funding from ATT/BTL  
to undertake similar experiments. We were told by AT&T -- NO since  
there was no business in data and would not be any. That was prior to  
me leaving in 1967/8.

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Bob Taylor" <R.W.Taylor@comcast.net>
Date: August 25, 2007 7:22:49 PM EDT
To: <dave@farber.net>
Subject: RE: [IP] Re:   AT&T's 1993 "You Will" Ads -- no thanks to ATT!

When, in the late "60s, I invited AT&T/Bell Labs to be a part of the  
early
ARPAnet, they declined with the assertion that "packet switching won't
work!"

	rwt

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From: David Farber [mailto:dfarber@cs.cmu.edu]
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Subject: [IP] Re: AT&T's 1993 "You Will" Ads -- no thanks to ATT!



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From: "Bob Frankston" <bob37-2@bobf.frankston.com>
Date: August 25, 2007 1:58:07 PM EDT
To: <dave@farber.net>, <ip@v2.listbox.com>
Cc: <dewayne@warpspeed.com>
Subject: RE: [IP] AT&T's 1993 "You Will" Ads -- no thanks to ATT!

The important point is that we're doing this despite ATT, not because
of ATT as they arrogantly assumed. There was as similar PR movie from
the 1950's saying that one day you will go into a phone booth, dial
home, and turn on your lawn sprinkler -- and that only Bell Labs
could make it possible.

It is this arrogance that got ATT into trouble in the first place and
they continue to force us to pay them for what we could not only do
better than them but we can do it only by working around their
gatekeepers.

These is a wonderful video - it's another demonstration of why we
cannot afford to put ourselves in the position of relying on carriers
to do us good. Goes along well withhttp://www.frankston.com/?
name=AssuringScarcity.

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From: David Farber [mailto:dave@farber.net]
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 09:01
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From: dewayne@warpspeed.com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: August 24, 2007 1:33:11 PM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy@warpspeed.com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] AT&T's 1993 "You Will" Ads

[Note:  I remember these.  Sort of interesting to checkout what they
were predicting then and how much of it has been realized today,
fourteen years later.  Sort of not so much.  One wonders whether or
not to be happy or sad about that.  BTW, the voice in those ads
belongs to Tom Selleck.  If you don't know who he is, then welcome to
one of the changes that fourteen years brings.  <g>  DLH]

AT&T 1993 "YOU WILL" ADS

       So, looking back at what technology was "futuristic" then, how
much
is commonplace today?

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZb0avfQme8>


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