On Saturday, November 30, 2002, Fred N. van Kempen wrote: 10 years ago, my 'internet connection' in Oklahoma was an email gateway on a college BBS with a 1-800 number, to which I'd gained access through by pretending to be someone else. Let's just say that FTP by email is not the Next Big Thing. Then a dialup ISP started up in Lawton. I paid some $/hour plus long distance charges, because everything was long distance from my little town. Various other dialup schemes were used since then. The town didn't get its own ISP until last year, after I had already moved away. It was all still very fun, though. -- Jeffrey Sharp