| 词条 | The Phone Company |
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It was one of the few grandfathered users of the '.int' top-level domain. The website's address was tpc.int. The address is no longer reachable. Archives in the Wayback Machine document this lost site of the early Internet. Dating from 1993, it is historically notable for being one of the earliest examples of how a community on the internet disrupted the heavily regulated long distance telephone network. In 1993, fax machines were still relatively new technology, driving an increase in demand for long distance calls (both foreign and domestic). Using the newer technology of e-mail to send the sort of documents and correspondence through the internet that fax machines typically transmitted was cheaper, faster, and higher quality. The community was organized to integrate the new technology of e-mail transmission through the internet with old technology of audio transmissions by fax machines. The community arose at a time when it was often thought that the internet would soon free every single person in the world to communicate freely with each other. It was organized to help facilitate that communication freely between people by:
It takes its name from the similarly named organisation in the film The President's Analyst.[1] This service became available since 1993, although it has been off-line in recent years.[1] See also
References1. ^1 2 The Phone Company's Remote Printing Service: The History of TPC.INT, ThePhoneCompany.int website. Retrieved 21 August 2010. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100727143804/http://www.tpc.int/faq/history.html |date=July 27, 2010 }} External links
3 : Internet fax|Telecommunication services|Internet properties established in 1993 |
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