In the 1980s, there were a bunch of online service providers like AOL and CompuServe that only allowed their customers to contact one another and only access services that those companies were hosting. All these companies (well, the ones that haven't gone out of business) have given up on the "walled garden" model of online access and let their customers use the real Internet.
Why will consumers in 2012 settle for any more restricted Internet access than consumers did in 2002?
Why will consumers in 2012 settle for any more restricted Internet access than consumers did in 2002?