Bringing The Internet To Borneo -- By Sea

dcigary writes: "CNN has an interesting story about the attempts to bring Maylasian citizens into the Internet Age. Now, they just have to wait until the infrastructure in the country catches up." Actually, this wouldn't be a bad idea of parts of the U.S. (and elsewhere), either.

Comments

Brief exposure to computers

[PD]

I watched the sales guy at a Radio Shack for 5 minutes in 1978. He programmed the TRS-80 Model I they had there to print out my name with the TAB() option to zigzag across the screen.

PATRICK
PATRICK
PATRICK
PATRICK
PATRICK
DRAPER
DRAPER
DRAPER
DRAPER
DRAPER
(etc.)

The useful thing that I learned in that 5 minutes was that I *really* needed to get one of those things.

Why was PD's comment moderated funny?

[dustpuppy]

Perhaps some of you 'young' people who have grown up with computers and the Internet all your lives don't understand how valuable or influential a five minute exposure to something cool can be.

My very first exposure to a computer was in 1986 when I saw a friend's dad use Printshop on his PC to print out a birthday card. That totally blew me away! From that day on, I longed for the day when I could afford my own PC to do exactly the same thing.

My friends dad had only demonstrated the PC for 5 minutes, but that was enough to set me on my career path of IT. So while I can understand how people may think that PD is being funny, his comment actually is insightful and it is five minute exposures like the one PD described that do launch a lot of people's careers!

My service.

[Black Parrot]

I live on a remote desert island, and for my IP services I have to save up all my packets for a week, and ship them out on the boat that swings by to drop off medical supplies. I get the replies a week later.

This really makes for slow downloads, which means I hardly ever get that coveted f1r57 p057.

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