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Election 2006 (and beyond): Digital Copyright Canada
From: russell_-at-_flora.ottawa.on.ca (Russell McOrmond)
Date: 6 Aug 1999 20:15:13 -0400
I don't know the authenticity of this, but the National Capital Freenet
is still running the FreePort junk that came from here. I realize that
NCF admins have been bandaiding that stuff since then but are there plans
to move the NCF to Chebucto or similar for their TTY dialup users?
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Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://russell.flora.org/work/>
Is the inheritance you are leaving your children in the form of debt?
http://www.flora.org/flora.action-forum/709
Lets live up to our responsibilities.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 12:47:08 -0500
From: Paul Nielson <pnielson@ILOS.NET>
Reply-To: Universal Access Canada / Canadian Coalition for Public
Information <CPI-UA@CCEN.UCCB.NS.CA>
To: CPI-UA@CCEN.UCCB.NS.CA
Subject: [CPI-UA] FW: the end of an era...
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike O'Connor [SMTP:mike@haven.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 6:54 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: the end of an era...
a passing... a sad thing.
m
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August 5, 1999
Y2K knocks out first U.S. free-net
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Cleveland Free-Net, the first free U.S. community computer
network, is a victim of the Year 2000 bug.
The system, which started as an electronic bulletin board in 1984 at Case
Western Reserve University, is scheduled to go out of business on Oct. 1. Its
operators said the system would self-destruct at year's end because the
computer program written for it can't recognize the year 2000.
Operators have decided to get out early.
"It's just sad to see it go," said David Bunsey, who has used Free-Net almost
since its inception. "It's an institution."
Raymond Neff, vice-president for information services at the university, said
rewriting Free-Net's computer program would take too much time and personnel.
And it still wouldn't have the "glamour of the Web," he said.
As its name suggests, free-net is free service and a tool for computer
users to
communicate. But does not offer flashy graphics or services offered by
commercial Web sites.
At one time, Cleveland Free-Net had 10,000 users a day. Now there are about
7,000. Many major cities in North America have similar free-nets.
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