IIRC it was free as long as you were fine with a random username, and I think a smaller number of dial-in hours.
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Kevin <[email protected]> wrote: > I think this would be a rather interesting talk to have, as it stays > close to home, and gives some of us from the later generation ideas of > how the Internet evolved in Manitoba. I recall freenet from my > prepubescent days, and believe I used it at one point(was it really > FREE?) > > On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 09:20:58 -0600 > Colin Stanners <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Did you know that Elie, Manitoba was the first town in Canada, and > possibly > > one of the first in the world, to get an experimental FTTH > voice/data/video > > network in 1981? (As this was the early days of computing, the data was > > actually to a Videotex / Minitel-style TV menu terminal). Ref: > > http://predoc.org/docs/index-230523.html?page=7 > > > > I have always been interested in Manitoba telecom/IT history and thought > > for the next hackathon we could have some talks in that regard, if anyone > > else is interested. > > > > I'm inquiring with Michael Gillespie (was MB Freenet sysadmin?) and Les > > (was big in BBSes I think) about possibilities. If anyone else has > > suggestions please let me know. > > > -- > Kevin <[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >
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