Harper's , April 1999. 4 and 5. 5. According to author David Kline, trash patents have frequently followed the growth of new technology, eventually getting thrown out as Patent Office knowledge catches up. By British Telecom and the Post Office, respectively. A private company, PhoneLink, sold a graphical software package that accessed both PhoneBase and other databases such as the Automobile Association's database of travel information much more efficiently, but with surcharges similar to those of the older online services prior to flat-rate pricing.
Reverse engineering is a common practice in the technology industry.
Essentially, you take something apart to identify its functionality, and then build something original that's functionally identical. Archetypes, Myths, and Metaphors , ed. It's a measure of how much the Net has changed that in 1994, when I first found the TV clip, it was 12Mb and took more than two hours to download from an FTP site. In 1999, you can watch it in real time. In Article I, Section 8, Clause 8.