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I grew up in Montana (in the town at the end of Lonesome Dove: Miles City, as in, ahem, http://www.milescity.com ), so I'm not exactly speculating, hehe.
Montana is so big (state #4) that the difference between hip college town Missoula and "where the Power River runs thru it" is greater than San Francisco and, say, Winnemuca Nevada.
Not that you can't get a dialtone: When I graduated HS in 1991, I was using dialup lines to download and try out Mosaic (figured something was going to need to change for the Web to catch on; I was at a blazing 14.4kbps and it sucked). I was chatting online with a 1200 baud modem at $10/hour before that, using the Internet before AOL & compuserve had gateways installed (I used GEnie).
So yeah, there is/has been Internet but I'd still say MT is not "real wired" out there in cowboy country.
I moved to the City to get somewhere Wired and Important. Yet even in downtown SF, my Verizon phone can't stay connected for a 5 minute phonecall, so its all relative.
Failing to find anything in Google about the Powder River left my jaw on the floor.
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"a mile wide, an inch deep and runs uphill," as Lewis and Clark described it.
It's the Powder River, runs into the Yellowstone to the Missouri. There are places it appears to run uphill because the wind blows the surface backward. It's generally pretty shallow, hence 'the inch deep' and, well, the name.
There is no link I can point to on the web. Not even Google knows about it. Montana is very unwired.
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I grew up in Montana (in the town at the end of Lonesome Dove: Miles City, as in, ahem, http://www.milescity.com ), so I'm not exactly speculating, hehe.
Montana is so big (state #4) that the difference between hip college town Missoula and "where the Power River runs thru it" is greater than San Francisco and, say, Winnemuca Nevada.
Not that you can't get a dialtone: When I graduated HS in 1991, I was using dialup lines to download and try out Mosaic (figured something was going to need to change for the Web to catch on; I was at a blazing 14.4kbps and it sucked). I was chatting online with a 1200 baud modem at $10/hour before that, using the Internet before AOL & compuserve had gateways installed (I used GEnie).
So yeah, there is/has been Internet but I'd still say MT is not "real wired" out there in cowboy country.
I moved to the City to get somewhere Wired and Important. Yet even in downtown SF, my Verizon phone can't stay connected for a 5 minute phonecall, so its all relative.
Failing to find anything in Google about the Powder River left my jaw on the floor.
"a mile wide, an inch deep and runs uphill," as Lewis and Clark described it.
It's the Powder River, runs into the Yellowstone to the Missouri. There are places it appears to run uphill because the wind blows the surface backward. It's generally pretty shallow, hence 'the inch deep' and, well, the name.
There is no link I can point to on the web. Not even Google knows about it. Montana is very unwired.