[TriLUG] Google Fiber Triangle Build out

[David Burton via TriLUG]

I think I probably had the last BBS up and running in the Triangle
<http://archive.is/CxHPo#selection-9.1680-9.1758>. One of the very last
ones, anyhow.

It ran Waffle, on OS/2, and provided a free dial-up UUCP email forwarding
service for quite a few neighbors, once upon a time. It ran two lines, but
I eventually cut it back to just one line, as a combination BBS+fax.

I left it up and running long after people stopped calling the BBS with any
regularity, partly because it also served as a paperless incoming fax
machine.

Dave



On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 2:01 AM, Ric Moore via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> On 08/25/2016 02:00 PM, Thomas Delrue via TriLUG wrote:
>
> The main reason they are doing these projects is so that all your
>> traffic goes through them: they will see, hear, smell and feel
>> everything you do and touch online because you're now going through
>> their pipes and everything is analyzed, quantified and stored...
>>
>> Personally, I find that *very* scary!
>>
>
> OTOH, anyone remember when AOL was the only game in town and you could
> find yourself with a $500 bill for a month if you played around at all?
> Google can run all over me in exchange for a $29 a month unlimited DSL
> connection.  Gwar bless 'em. :) Ric
>
>
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