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I am reminded of the old Ricochet network:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricochet_(Internet_service)

http://daedalus.cs.berkeley.edu/talks/retreat.6.96/Metricom....

It was an idea ahead of its time.

Truly. I used to run Ricochet.wikispaces.com and am sitting on a mountain of docs and stuff. Can't believe they managed to market it into the dirt and burn through five billion bucks.

I still have a couple of the old modems lying around somewhere. There wasn't ever service where I live, but I played around w/ direct modem-to-modem communication. It was fun.

!! do you have the PDFs/etc that the Wayback didn't capture? If so, perhaps I can host them on the Internet Archive? Particularly interested in the Garage Gateway -- I've never seen the code and I have an otherwise working Ethernet Radio & pair of poletops I'd love to get properly running.

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