[CS-FSLUG] End of the Net (again)?

[Nathan T.]

Does anyone else think that something might just come along to replace 
the internet. After all, technically the earliest internet access was 
done by dialling a phone number into a modem and communicating with a 
computer at the other end. I know that the major phone and cable 
companies right now also are or control the ISPs, but there are other 
methods such as linking together wireless routers into a unified network 
and then somehow linking those across cities. Of course whatever comes 
around to replace the internet if it's a volunteer lead project will be 
slow and unreliable, but I'd be more than interested in the potential 
outcome of such a project.

Nathan T.


Fred A. Miller wrote:
> Josiah Ritchie wrote:
>   
>> Assuming this all to be true...
>>
>> I see opportunities for small ISPs popping up again to serve those who
>> see the stupidity of it all. Maybe we should let the big ISPs find
>> ways to hurt themselves and be prepared to replace them. Is it time to
>> re-investigate Internet access over the power grid, municipal wifi,
>> and the like?
>>     
>
> "They" will control the big piplines......NO way to avoid having to deal 
> with these hairbags.
>
> Fred
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