![VUC: IP Communications Community show](https://d3dthqtvwic6y7.cloudfront.net/podcast-covers/000/048/105/small/voip-amp-tell-http-vuc-me.jpg)
Summary: According to our guest, Michael Elling, few people appreciate that the internet really had its origins and scaled due to flat-rate dial-up from the mid to late 1980s, which is why the US had such an economic foundational head-start 10 years ahead of the rest of the world wrt â??the internetâ??.