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Barmymoo:
Yes. You don't have a legal right to a phone line. Or at least, not to use one to set up an illicit internet.

pwhodges:

--- Quote from: Mister D Nomms on 30 Apr 2012, 00:11 ---If the new internet used phone lines to connect to small servers, can anything really be done to stop that?

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I remember what the Internet was like in 1992, when I got my first personal modem connection - and there was already a substantial international infrastructure in place supporting it.  You really, really don't want to think about returning to that with anything remotely similar to today's expectations.

Cie:
Waste it procrastinating and then slap myself for wasting my allotted internet time. Internet and productive don't tend to go hand in hand for me.

I think if we went back to phone lines we'd probably set them on fire by all the extra traffic (what do you mean, physics doesn't work like that? :roll:).

Toba:

--- Quote from: pwhodges on 30 Apr 2012, 00:26 ---I remember what the Internet was like in 1992, when I got my first personal modem connection - and there was already a substantial international infrastructure in place supporting it.  You really, really don't want to think about returning to that with anything remotely similar to today's expectations.

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Who said we were trying to make another Internet as good as the Internet we have now?  This is a "well, they won't even let me talk to my friends anymore" scenario (and frankly, the scenario is silly).  Internet just means a network of networks, so I've already made several Internets in my time.  Sure, they weren't "The Internet" level, but if I wanted to communicate with my local friends I could hook something up.

pwhodges:
Reducing your aspirations to those you can achieve is rather begging the question though, isn't it?  Of course, it's a good start when there's no alternative, but I didn't think that was what we were considering.

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