# kaal:claim:3782198-011

**Claim.** Per connection pricing by ISPs penalized success: creators whose pages became popular faced charges scaling with traffic, and individuals with popular pages were forced to delete their content.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- applies to low volume, non commercial content providers in the Web 1.0 era

**Source quote.**

> The ISP charged low-volume providers on a per connection basis. If your site suddenly became popular, with thousands of people constantly accessing your content, you had to pay for thousands of long-dis- tance phone calls. Individuals with popular pages were forced to delete their content.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Contemporary Decentralization* (2021), History of Web <.> and Web ?.>, page 9

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Contemporary Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782198

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `e7e1378e3eed06cace6534e7792a7307d607d18bc6beb4ac45896476280728e4` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Calcaterra%20and%20Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20Contemporary%20Decentralization.pdf

**Failure mode.** success-penalty-in-per-connection-pricing  (family: staking-and-incentive-misalignment)

**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** hosting-costs, isps, web1, content-creators

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