Re: What exactly is an internet (service) provider?

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 13:39:07 +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum said:

> But that's just a detail. The real difference is that you can buy a car 
> anywhere on the landmass of your choice and then bring it to whereever 
> you want to use it on that same landmass. With IP service, you're 
> limited to whatever is available in a certain place. Usually the choice 
> is between too expensive and/or too slow (dial-up and GPRS and the 
> like) and broken (most hotel broadband and wifi hotspots).
The analogy gets much more interesting if you posit the existence of cars
that run on diesel, or ethanol, or hydrogen fuel cell, or other energy sources
not as widespread as 89-octane gasoline....

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