Re: Internet 2.0   
     By: The Millionaire to Jeff.Clayton on Sun Mar 03 2013 13:07:22   
      
    > Bring back the BBS again and all your worries are over.   
      
   	Almost true.  BBSes will probably just be local islands of    
   relatively isolated folks, unless many of them have exchanged analog lines    
   numbers to be used for modem communications by then.  Right now even    
   FidoNet primarily uses the backbone of the internet to locate and poll    
   connections from other nodes.  If the 'internet kill switch' were hit,    
   there would be no way to locate backup modem numbers on the web, there    
   would be no way to exchange modem numbers via email with other sysops,    
   even if you know they have backup modem lines available.  A locally    
   isolated system isn't worth a whole lot, really; we need to have the    
   international informational exchange that is provided with a robust    
   network independently of the Internet.  I really wish that someone would    
   start compiling a list of backup telephone numbers for BBSes that are    
   'kill switch ready'.  If I can get through the massive list of things to    
   do that I have scheduled today maybe I'll try setting one up myself.  :)   
      
      
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