In Memoriam: The Cleveland Free-Net
Sep. 2nd, 2010 10:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineThe organization that inspired the creation of my first - still active - internet provider, the National Capital FreeNet...will soon be no more.
The obit-to-be is here:
http://www.atarimax.com/freenet/common/html/goodbye.php
The obit-to-be is here:
http://www.atarimax.com/freenet/common/html/goodbye.php
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Date: 2010-09-02 02:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-02 02:23 pm (UTC)Cut'n'pasting seems to remedy the problem for now. I'll see what I can do about this later.
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Date: 2010-09-02 02:29 pm (UTC)Sadness at seeing this disappear. The NCF was my first exposure to the Internet proper as well. Before that, it was all FidoNet.
To avert the confusion:
Date: 2010-09-02 02:40 pm (UTC)What we've lost is the organization that gave its founders the idea we've been running with at NCF.
That may be the bigger loss.
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Date: 2010-09-03 05:42 am (UTC)For more detail, you may want to read this page (http://wiki.case.edu/Cleveland_Freenet).
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Date: 2010-09-03 02:17 pm (UTC)Particularly when I look in the mirror.