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Life As An African Web Developer

Posted by timothy on from the grass-is-drier dept.

There's an interesting look at the realities of high-tech in Africa running on NewsForge -- specifically, one writer's account of starting a web development company in Ghana, dealing with obstacles including power problems worse than the norm in deepest California.

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  1. Re:Going up? by DCowern · · Score: 4, Funny

    Crap... I think I clicked the "read more" link and ended up back in 1996... A few words from the future (April of 2003):

    • Most areas of the US still face the "last mile" problem
    • Linux STILL isn't on everyone's desktop
    • Microsoft is still one big bully of a company
    • A bunch of aliens came and tried to enslave half the population but we beat them all back with garden hoses. REMEMBER TO STOCK UP.

    All in all things aren't that different in the future :-P