Hello Ed, 
 
EK> AOL is a glorified BBS that offers email and web access, the  
EK> same thing i could do with a dial up line and wildcat navigator. 
 
So, AOL is a glorified BBS?  That makes the common BBS what? 
Cyberspace even more dumbed down?  The logic here is unfathomable. 
Maybe you could refer back to Mr. Cassell's earlier observation 
and try to follow the argument through to this point.  Perhaps  
you should first ask, "What's cyberspace?"   
 
I'm not familiar with Wildcat Navigator.  Can it facilitate live 
concerts?  Does it deliver all of the web's graphics in the same  
number of colors and resolutions as AOL does in combination with 
Internet Explorer?  AOL does more than provide access to the Internet. 
It also gathers information and makes it available by menus that 
are navigated with a mouse.  Selections are made by clicking on 
a mouse button.  This represents work done by people operating  
behind the scenes of the "glorified BBS."  There are many such 
people with all manner of skills, talents and levels of education 
and experience.  I remember you offering Wayne Chirnside a job. 
Would he have been working behind the scenes of your BBS?  
 
Mike 
 
Does Wildcat Navigator offer streaming audio and video? 
 
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