Re: Notice the Premium Ads-Paid Advertisement

Posted by paul on January 21, 2002 at 16:56:06 from (199.3.9.7):

In Reply to: Notice the Premium Ads-Paid Advertisement posted by Saddened on January 19, 2002 at 18:37:09:

The internet is going through it's growth stages. In the '90s it was new and open & free. Fun for all.

As more people got in, it is now seen as a business venture. Companies scambled to get their biggest chunk of the 'net as they possibly could. About this time, the bad people, loud mouths, and hucksters showed up, and made people 'uncomfortable'. People start asking for controls, regestration, regulation, restrictions. They came, much to business's pleasure.

As with any new industry, it hit it's limits, and will now collapse inward. The big giant companies will pick through the wrecage, and buy/take/remove those web stites as they see fit. We are all regestered somewhere, we will all have to pay up our monthly or yearly fees to use whatever internet services we want. The large companies will generate revinue, and internet access fees will be structured so that small companies (or free sites) cannot compete. There will only be one auction site, one map site, one greeting card site, one ag site, photo storage site, one.... You either pay the fee, or go without. There won't be any 'free' alternatives.

Ytmag seems to be bucking that trend, but eventually they will be swallowed. Banner ads no longer pay the bills for a popular web site that needs expensive server spave & heavy web access times.

The drop in the ecconomy has accelerated some of this, but it is the inevitable course of any industry. How many airplane, auto, tractor manufaturers were there in the '40s? How many of each are their now? Same with the internet. We are in a contraction & consolidation phase, and it will only get moreso.

So no one is confused, none of my comments are a knock against Ytmag. I've enjoyed it's services for years, and will continue to do so for as long as it lasts. The Powers That Be are working towards eliminating free web sites.

--->Paul

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