What is an ISP?
organization that provides services for accessing, using, the Internet
What does ISP stand for?
Internet service provider
When was the first one started in the US?
In 1989
Where?
In Brookline, Massachusetts
What was it called?
The World
What is the internet?
developed as a network between government research laboratories
When was it becoming available to the general population?
November 1989.
What things does an ISP generally provide?
Internet access, transit web hosting, etc
When was the government thinking about letting them offer fast and slow packages?
compromise net neutrality
Who is Susan Crawford?
a legal and technology expert at Harvard Law School
What was her answer to threats to net neutrality?
municipal broadband
What would happen if broadband was called a telecommunications service?
Preserve net neutrality
What did Obama want to do about it?
Reclassify it
who wanted to prevent more rules on ISPs?
Republicans
Is the upcoming vote going to support net neutrality?
unknown