A misdirected email reveals Cable One wants to fight publicly funded ISPs tooth and nail, referring to blocking government grants to its competition as one of its "most important tasks."

#CableOne #CableInternet #AntiCompetition #ISP #MunicipalBroadband
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/cable-companys-accidental-email-to-rival-discusses-plan-to-block-competition/

@viznut

«By this time, the psychology of Internet use had completely reversed for me. The always-on IRC screen gave me the same homely sense of security as the TV gives to some, and sometimes I even scheduled my outdoor time to coincide with the quieter IRC times.»
Sounds a bit familiar indeed. :)

I remember using my brother's work laptop while he was on vacation, and a long phone cable that ran all the way up to my room, that I had to plug in downstairs in the meter cabinet when I wanted to go online. At times quietly so my parents wouldn't notice.

Usually that involved writing e-mails beforehand and having them waiting in the outbox, and having several forum windows (or was I already using Opera with tabs by then?) open with replies waiting to be sent, and images waiting to be uploaded to #Renderosity.

#CableInternet and #ADSL were becoming more commonplace at that time, but living in a #polder for a long time meant that ISPs said they couldn't offer us anything else but dialup.

(And several years later as internet speeds improved, it meant that ISPs suddenly claimed they could no longer offer ADSL there because they could no longer guarantee the minimum speeds... and thus going from unmetered 1mbit/256kbps ADSL to overpriced and metered 4G connexions. Glad I moved away from that to fibre optics here in Norway now ;))