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# Reading this article on the BBC
Seeing as I'm in the States, I'm watching this one with interest
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/dot_life/newsid_1814000/1814080.stm
Bizarre to think that hyperlinks are 'owned' by anyone.....
(Muttley, Mon 11 Feb 2002, 10:25, archived)
# SO the Bt chairman
isn't worried about PR.

Just as well really.
(james, Mon 11 Feb 2002, 10:29, archived)
# scary that...
so what they mean is that this
linky is patented? Fook me..
(I helped save b3ta! Hugo Rune, Mon 11 Feb 2002, 10:32, archived)
# The idea that
Prestel in anyway was defined by the ability to link things together in the way that the internet links anything to anything is a bit much as well.

Prestel was pants. I know. I have a contract with them somewhere to host a game I wrote for the Apple ][. Never saw a penny (never saw a download either). Then again, I was 12.

Still got the game somewhere on a 5 1/4 inch floppy.
(I helped save b3ta! chthonic, Mon 11 Feb 2002, 10:39, archived)
# aaargh!
I fucking hate BT! they are not content to Just fuck up the internet access in the UK they want to spoil it for everyone else too.. Bah and Pah!
(scabby dog, Mon 11 Feb 2002, 11:02, archived)
# but
they are going to use american money to provide cheap broadband access over here!
(redifusion, Mon 11 Feb 2002, 11:57, archived)