[syndicate] Re: Re: Re: Re: "A Small Note"

[Alan Sondheim]

It's true that Y2k scares me to pieces. I have no idea what to expect!
Azure and I have really stocked up this time - and what if there's no
power for weeks? We'll be stuck in Brooklyn. But at least it's years
away.

(In the meantime, if you go to the Trace site below, there's a Y2k project
I did over the 'hinge' of the millennium with a number of volunteers,
tracking traceroutes around the planet.)

- Alan

On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Barbara Lattanzi wrote:

>
> Hi Alan - thanks!
>
> Whatever we think is *really* going to happen at the turn of the century,
> it seems to me y2k at least presents an incredible opportunity for bringing
> into the foreground systems and assumptions that have been thoroughly
> embedded (just like those pesky chips) and taken for granted.
>
> Barbara
>
>
> At 04:13 PM 9/6/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>
>
> >Hi Barbara! It's not true. I heard something about this myself, but the
> >funding was necessary to keep what some predict would be rapid
> >commercialization otherwise. Ever since we defeated those immigration
> >lawyers in Texas - I even forget their name! - who were "spamming" usenet,
> >the Net's been beautiful. And our government will keep it that way!
> >And English!
> >
> >Alan
> >
> >On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Barbara Lattanzi wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > "Internet Dead December 1995?"
> > >
> > >
> > > I just heard that the government will stop funding the Internet in december
> > > 1995. Can someone post or send me more details. Is anybody trying to stop
> > > this?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > >So, quit kidding around, is it dying or not? I pay a lot for my connection
> > > >and will cancel pronto if I am simply plugged into a decaying corpse.
> > > >Please, be serious.
> > > >
> > > >-af
> > > >
> > > >
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