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Computer Communications


Communications. I could barely spell the word, much less comprehend its meaning.
Yet when Mrs. Rubin made the announcement about the new club she was starting at
the junior high school, it triggered something in my mind.
Two weeks later, during the last month of my eighth grade year, I figured it out.
I was rummaging through the basement, and I ran across the little blue box that
my dad had brought home from work a year earlier. Could this be a modem?

I asked Mrs. Rubin about it the next day at school, and when she verified my
expectations, I became the first member of Teleport 2000, the only organization
in the city dedicated to introducing students to the information highway.

This was ...

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that. Cleveland Freenet's
Freeport software began appearing on systems all over the world, in places as
far away as Finland and Germany - with free telnet access!

I didn't live life as a normal twelve-year-old kid that summer. I sat in front
of the monitor twenty-four hours a day, eating my meals from a plate set next to
the keyboard, stopping only to sleep. When I went back to school in the fall, I
was elected the first president of Teleport 2000, partially because I was the
only student in-the school with a freenet account, but mostly because my
enthusiasm for this new, exciting world was contagious.

Today, as the business world is becoming more aware of the advantages of
telecommunications, and the younger generation is becoming more aware of the
opportunities, it is successfully being integrated into all aspects of our
society. Companies are organizing Local Area Networks and tapping into
information resources through internal networking and file sharing, and children
of all ...

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Added: 2/12/2005 08:22:27 AM
Category: Computers
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