WI AT&T bought ARPANet?

At&t might have commercialized it earlier but it would be like compuserve pay by the minute deal. However what gets interesting is when AT&T is broken up in 1984. Is AT&T forced to sell off ARPAnet??? Is at&t required to maintain arpanet or whatever it is as a common carrier network(becoming master of the pipes so to speak)???

Does arpanet get split into several regional networks or does it get split horizontally into several independent networks which eventually coordinate an INTER-NETwork (or internet) for short.
 
I'm wondering how our society would have developed along the lines of a centralized internet.
 
What Voss said sounds right. People would pay by the minute, or maybe still by the month, and it would be commercialized earlier.
I imagine there would be more regulations on what to put on the internet, with people having to pay extra for certain kinds of services. There'd be one price if you only want the internet for academic websites, one price if you only want it for websites about TV shows, and one price if you want adult materials. I imagine that the AT&T company would hire people to make most of the websites, and it would take a while for them to think of letting customers make their own. When they do that, there will be a price for making your own site.
 
What Voss said sounds right. People would pay by the minute, or maybe still by the month, and it would be commercialized earlier.
I imagine there would be more regulations on what to put on the internet, with people having to pay extra for certain kinds of services. There'd be one price if you only want the internet for academic websites, one price if you only want it for websites about TV shows, and one price if you want adult materials. I imagine that the AT&T company would hire people to make most of the websites, and it would take a while for them to think of letting customers make their own. When they do that, there will be a price for making your own site.

Quite interesting. So we would have earlier Internet but most likely not so widespread (or so quickly spread) as IOTL.
 
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You might see AT&T implement something in the 70s like the Ceefax service in the UK but with pcs(Apple II, Commodore PET) of the day.

The At&t breakup would probably lead to competing network services especially if the ceefaxish service was popular. I could imagine hypertext by the early to mid 80s. Although a graphical web would take longer until computers like the amiga and atari ST showed up.
 
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