When Kansas lawmakers introduced a bill outlawing municipal broadband network, there was no sponsor’s name on it: rumor has it that’s because it was written by a lobbyist called John Federico, who is president of Kansas Cable Telecommunications Association. The bill masquerades as a pro-competition measure (pro-competition initiatives from the cable industry! Pull the other one), but it effective prohibits measures like the wildly successful Google Fiber project in Kansas City. Given that the big carriers and cable companies have shown no interest in providing fiber or even reasonably priced, reasonably provisioned broadband in most markets, this means that most people in Kansas can kiss any hope of a read broadband life goodbye.

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Lol I forgot about the term INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY.

I am a pretty patient person but if there is one thing I will lose my shit over almost instantly it’s my computer/internet being slow my tolerance level is exactly 0 for that shit man I did my time in the 90’s/2000’s I don’t need any of this garbage

#i can still hear the dial up noises in my head #as i sat in exuberant expectation of neopets

I’m not that old but I started on TELNET as a kid

Back when I was crashing at my uncle’s say 13 years ago he had an old mac that he lent me to go online. Routinely tho you’d hear me curse it going “out of memory”

When I had roommates in college I could only safely go online at night, or risk losing my internet connection when someone lifted up the receiver.