[TriLUG] Google Fiber Triangle Build out

[Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 2:29 AM, David Burton via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> 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 remember reading about UUCP. Are there still nodes up?

> 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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