in at the beginning... work very much in progress
For anybody living through the last days of the GPO telephone hegemony before privatisation, in the 70s and 80s, in the 70s and 80s, the internet look like the answer to everything. Almost Instant messaging and acknowledgement at flat rate charges anywhere in the world. What's not to like if you are a user? A different answer from the incumbent operators of the monopolies around telephones and mail delivery, struggled to keep their snouts in a very lucrative trough.