BBS Software for Our Corporate Borg Hive Future
Thursday October 19th 2006, 4:33 am

In the mid-80s, I was a BBS junkie. BBS is short for Bulletin Board
System. It was a terminal program hosted on computers over analog
phone lines. It was primitive, slow, and often frustrating, with
plenty of dropped connections and busy signals. It was non-graphical,
text-based. By the late 1980s, I had an internet email account, surfed
gopherspace, participated in message boards, and read newsgroups,
thanks to an ISP in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In the early 1990s, all of
this changed when CERN introduced the World Wide Web and the National
Center for Supercomputing Applications released the first browser,
Mosaic. I soon left the text-based BBS universe behind.

If telecoms and massive cable corporations have their way, it may not
be long before I am dusting off the old BBS software and once again
surfing over ancient copper telephone lines. "There's a battle going
on for control of the Internet, and if consumers don't watch out
they're going to be playing second modem to the captains of industry,"
writes Bloomberg. "The black hats are worn by a handful of media
conglomerates who hope to build a two-tiered Internet, with the
fastest tier going at premium prices. Everyone else will surf at
reduced speeds, which can be the fast track to Net oblivion."

[... ...]

I am seriously thinking about downloading the Synchronet Bulletin
Board System, an open source software that supports vector graphics.
Call it Back to the Future, using old technology to access a new
communication paradigm. Naturally, simply switching technologies will
not stop the piggies from making it illegal to send and receive
digital transmissions over an old fashioned, copper-based telephone
line. In fascist and authoritarian societies, the state ultimately
controls all means of communication and those who deviate are
punished, as the hive mind demands a collective obedience to a single
consciousness, serving and driving the goals of the corporatized
fascist state.

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Full article at "Kurt Nimmo" - http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=615


Cheers, Steve..

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