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Title: Farmers homegrowing internet.
Post by: Herodes on February 28, 2013, 01:24:07 PM
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/02/27/2240242/british-farmers-growing-their-own-internet-service

This is almost like I think Phinnaeus Gage thought it up! Excellent!


Title: Re: Farmers homegrowing internet.
Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on February 28, 2013, 05:26:59 PM
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/02/27/2240242/british-farmers-growing-their-own-internet-service

This is almost like I think Phinnaeus Gage thought it up! Excellent!

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Then, armed with shovels and backhoes, the group, called Broadband for the Rural North, or B4RN (it's pronounced 'barn'), began digging the first of what will be approximately 180,000 meters of trenches and filling them with fiber-optic cable, all on its own."

Actually, I started FPGA for the Rural Miners, or F4RM (it's pronounced 'farm').