It's called Usenet, and it actually still exists. It's mainly used (still) to facilitate piracy.JR8 wrote:I remember soc.culture.singapore*, (c20yrs ago)
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* For the younger lot here. This was essentially before the www/web. You didn't have websites (apart from porn lol). You had e-mail, and 'bulletin boards' where people simply discussed topics, no graphics, or HTML, just text.
Ah so benevolent what, protecting the tax revenue garnered from the poor people. Yah dat online gambling ah, so bad - not like Marina Bay Sand (minimum entry fee $500 of chip), oh, dat? a source of national pride right.AngMoG wrote:Just read the half-chinese bird cage liner's title page today... they spun it along the lines of "we do this to protect all those poor people who would otherwise end up in debt and destroy their families". And if you look at that not-so-old paper's website, they have a story titled "Online betting made his life hell".
All of the big ones are already well established and operating from places like Isle of Man and Gibraltar. Just take 'bwin' for example (yes, the Real Madrid 'bwin'). They're in Gibraltar, and on the London Stock Exchange. I can't imagine that's because they found amazing local talent there.aster wrote:Why not open up to the industry and have online companies operate from Singapore, just like the financial sector? Then they can regulate it, get revenue from it, create jobs, etc.
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