The internet is over!

[maffick]

I have a couple 2400 baud modems and one 9600 baud FAX/modem I can donate.... Oh and some UTP wire......

[Elspode]

Umm...is PODS and other BBS functionality still in place somewhere? We might need that soon.

This whole thing is just further proof of an earlier posting I made, which posits that the entirety of humanity is seen as nothing more than a cash cow ripe for milking in ever more efficient ways. "Be Rich or Get Screwed" should be stamped on the currencies of all the nations of the world.

Last time I checked, I was already paying someone for my Internet access, but that apparently isn't enough. Right now, Time Warner is sucking over $200 per month out of me for cable, phone and Internet, but that isn't enough, apparently, since I still have enough money to eat and live indoors.

Hell, even reviving BBS's won't help. Back at the peak of BBS popularity, Southwestern Bell was on the verge of charging much higher rates for phone lines which were used to connect to BBS's. Why? Because they decided that such services were "businesses" (despite the fact that virtually all of them were free, and despite the fact that the mere existence of BBS's guaranteed that they would have many more lines in service than they would have otherwise). In actuality, the Phone Company just wanted a bigger piece of the pie, and that was their bullying way of getting it.

So's this.