Important components report

Sam:
 - Evolution of computer networks and commercial parties gaining influence, political views on this (privatisation in general), and views in silicon valley about reduction of government influence

Saskia:

 - Internet in a pre-commercial context, locally
 - Squatters movement -> ideology, culture, communities -> use of technology for social goals
 - Start and downfall of the DDS
 - Eventual commercialisation of DDS, local marker
 - 2018 project: DDS as a marketplace

Mylene:
 - 1980s/90s: Technological enthusiasm, 'capitalism won', informs the enthusiasm for free market capitalism and the privatisation boom
 - Distinct eras, 1970s downturn, boom/bust in the 80s and 90s, response to the 2008 crisis

Hasseeb:
 - Commercialisation on the Internet (not of), influencing factors
	 - E-mail and world wide web
	 - Business-to-business commerce (e-mail services, networking services)
	 - Electronic publishing, mainstream personal communication
	 - Similarly to how WhatsApp killed SMS and POTS, the Internet not being paid for per e-mail message or for time online brought about a gigantic explosion of e-mail
 - World wide web market
	 - Commercial browser software (Netscape, IE, ...)
	 - Made internet accessible for ordinary people
	 - Services like AOL, CompuServe, ...
	 - WWW/Internet was not originally secure enough for commercial transactions; SSL and others are developed
	 - Commercial server, middleware, and web development software
	 - Allowed businesses applications to be rapidly developed
	 - 

Division by topic:
	- The history of the internet and its privatization (handover to commercial parties)
	- Social perspectives on the internet
	- Commerce on the Internet

Notes:

My 2001 paper mentioned private sector was not very active in the early days of the internet; Hasseeb talks about how this changed with the WWW, business-to-business commerce, allowing businesses to develop a presence on the WWW without having to have a bunch of nerds to do things for them



Overall report:

 - How did networking emerge?
 	- What preceded and influenced computer networking
 	- US perspective:
 		- Government and research institutes in the US
 		- Commercial experiments in networking, time-sharing
	- European perspective:
		- Squatters movement, ideology, culture and communities
		- Local use of technology for social goals
- What influenced the evolution of networking
	- US perspective:
		- Move from government-created to government oversight to fully privatized
		- Neoliberalism, third way soc dem, view on privatizations
		- Californian ideology
		- Privatization also enabled more access etc
	- European perspective
		- Hacker movement, but differences from the US
		- DDS, focus on public spaces
		- 
- Commerce on the internet
	- Privatization of the backbone was a prerequisite due to AUPs, etc
	- At some point, conditions were ripe:
		- Commercial traffic was allowed
		- Technologies had evolved so that regular people had access
		- Internet was common for B2B communication
		- Businesses realise there is a market to tap
	- Microsoft's influence on the internet, IE
	- Financing: internet advertisements
	- Media businesses moving onto the internet
		- Challenge: how to not undermine print business, but also not miss the internet boat
	- Non-media businesses
		- Web changed the playing field, how did businesses react?
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