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Article #624194Re: Computers, anyone?
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 16:52
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 16:52
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On 2018-06-28, Michael Black <mbl...@pubnix.net> wrote: > The Tall Ship people must be annoyed that someone claimed the URL for an > ISP, leaving the Tall Ships in need of some other URL. Kind of like USR > taking the name to sell modems, and never a robot in sight (unless the > ones putting the modems together). Susan Calvin must be steamed... > It was out of my hands, but since 2012 there's been high speed here, so > I'm not with my third ISP. When I signed up there, one of the owners > dropped by with the form, and waited while I filled it out, it was the > second oldest ISP in town. Most of those small ISPs are gone, either out > of business or bought up by a bigger fish. I actually am still with that > ISP, not for access but for my webpage and email, and if I'm stuck I can > use shell access there. That's how I hang on to my e-mail address. It's just too good to give up. > Most of those old ISPs are gone, some just got too big, and that's where > we've lost that personal aspect. Yup. Now almost everyone is something like jdo...@monopoly.com. -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ Fight low-contrast text in web pages! http://contrastrebellion.com
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