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on Wednesday February 26 2014, @03:00AM
from the don't-panic-and-always-know-where-your-towel-is dept.
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AnonTechie writes
Media Development Investment Fund, a New York based non-profit, is looking to offer a world-wide data stream free of charge.
Dubbed the 'Outernet', the network will broadcast a one-way data stream to the entire world via a network of mini satellites. The idea is to bridge the digital divide, offering some of the most important (and basic) information on the internet to people regardless of location.
Outernet has posted intention to deliver staples such as: local and international news, OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia, Ubuntu, various educational courseware, and emergency communications systems for use when cell systems fail.
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday February 26 2014, @04:10PM
Talking about "providing internet access just like a cablemodem" or more generically transferring information using computers but probably not the UI you wanted? Soccer mom is going to freak out if you give her a BBS account on a FIDONET node or a UUCP usenet node, when what she really wanted to do was "like" her friends cat videos on facebook.
There's nothing inherently "internet" about a wireless access point. Plug it into a machine with a DHCP server and a web browser and it'll be happy. Humorously a lot of end users and media consumption devices assume any open wifi signal "must" be connected to the internet. Not so!