At 08:39 -0400 Earth time on 070902 Ann McElroy sent:
On this day in 1990 Janet Szabo posted first Fibernet member message
on FiberNet BBS using a dial-up modem connection to a rural Minnesota
sheep farm.
And here we are in 2007 and I am posting using a dial up modem to post from
an almost sub urban (was rural in 1990) sheep farm in Ontario. I think we
need this more now than then there are fewer of us and we are harder to
find. However I think we are more appreciated than we where 17 years ago,
not only as farmers but also as fibre artists.
Ann
Shepherds' Spring Farm
North Gower On.
Canada
In 1990 Fibernet was not on the Internet, but was a BBS, so Janet and
others had to place a long-distance call direct to a modem at my
farm. I didn't have Internet access for several years after that
time, and then not from US West (known affectionately as US Worst)
the renamed former Bell company. Instead two local phone companies
gave me toll free access to two different small towns that were toll
free from my small town service. That was the fortunate result of
Minnesota farmers starting their own local phone companies decades
before when the Bell System refused to connect to farms. The early
companies often literally used fence wires as parts of the network.
Ron
Ron Parker...Fibernet List Mom
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