amounts of "dark fiber" in the US (and abroad?) It seems they have plans to build out their own network. I've been hearing that for a while now. Maybe they plan to take on Skype directly. Imagine if every search result had an "I'm online / I'm away" button. That would be a whole new level of information searching. Oops, that goes way off-topic here. Someone come up with a vintage angle please! -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Vintage Computer Festival Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 2:31 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Vintage people: Google hires Vint Cerf On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, 'Computer Collector Newsletter' wrote: I heard a report on the news the other day that Google is buying up mass amounts of "dark fiber" in the US (and abroad?) It seems they have plans to build out their own network. Smart people! I'm definitely investing when they do their next stock offering. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:17:43 -0500 John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote: *topic drift warning* It's my understanding that the Iroquoi (sp) Indians of the Eastern United states had a 'social code' by which if you were away from your home, you were supposed to put up a big prominent banner marker, so that other people would know to steer away and not go near your house. I think it's codified in the Iroquoi Constitution. They apparently had a very different attitude about respect for other people's property that we do today.