From: Adam Flinton 

Antti Kurenniemi wrote:
> "Geo"  wrote in message
news:41ca1c7b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>You know.. I've always wondered something.
>>
>>How come we never see anyone from Alaska online? I would think with all
>>the
>>people I've met online that somewhere I should have met someone in Alaska
>>(or siberia) because it's not like they have much else to do, you know? I
>>wonder if the internet is still not truly a world wide network and that
>>these places really are still quite isolated..
>
>
> Don't know about Alaska, but Siberia is generally very poor and very
> underdeveloped area. I don't think anyone knows how many people live there,
> or where exactly are the towns and so on. It's a huge area that is sort of
> forgotten (on purpose) by the Russian government. I doubt most of Siberia
> (apart from some mining colonies) has even telephones, let alone computers.
>

Not entirely true....

The Center for New Informational technology, one of the SU & then
Russia's biggest IT places is in NovoSibirsk.

I was offered a lift to Novosibirsk in a car in winter which I declined,
however the roads are only available in winter as in summer it's a marsh.

Adam

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