Major Sites that a 'tiered' Internet Would Have Killed

david@systemoverlord.com (David Tomaschik) — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 03:08:02 +0000

Again and again, we hear about the idea of a "tiered" Internet, containing 1st and 2nd class citizens. In some variants, entire sites would be cut off by ISPs. Let's take a look at sites that probably would not have been able to get started with the notion of a "tiered" Internet. In this list, I'm including major sites that were started without major commercial backing, whose success only came after making it big -- something that takes users being able to access the site, of course. Let's assume that a tiered Internet came out about a decade ago, right after the fall of the dot-com era.

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Major Sites that a 'tiered' Internet Would Have Killed