julian814 wrote:
I remember freeNet. Our BBS Sysop used it to download newsgroups and e-mail. but you needed to be associated with the entity that provided the serve. (UNL here.) Of course I happen to know that UNL stopped doing dial-in as it had become obsolete. :( Supposidly it still exisits somewhere on campus but I havn't been able to verify/find the phone number.All right, maybe it's just a blurb in my addled mind, but back in the glory days of the Apple // and the beginnings of the internet, there used to be what they called FreeNET nodes, where people could dial in and get on the internet for the price of the call. I even seem to remember there being such a node in State College at one time, although the connection was at a pitiful 300 bps. Anyone else know what I'm talking about? Ralph Glatt
(I work at UNL.) Thankx, Ed