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CWP Article #3: Consumer Online Services Were Already Live

By 1979–1981, dial-up consumer networks were routine. Users exchanged messages, read news, browsed listings, and even shopped. WPA mirrors these primitives in a focused, untraditional independent build

Established precedent

Conclusion

Given the services already live, WPA is not a stretch—it is a small, precise application of widely available capabilities.