Anonymous asked: about 2 or 3 decades after the widespread adoption of the Internet by the general public, ISPs, which are also television companies, asked the public what they wanted on the Internet. The general public paused their torrents, closed their Netflix tabs, and shouted, in unison, WE WANT TELEVISION ON THE INTERNET! And thus ISPs, which are also television companies, decided that the Internet would cease to be as it is now, and would become an appendage to cable TV, cable an appendage of the Internet