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A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you - Bert Leston Taylor
Web's founder sets up foundation to improve it
INVENTOR OF THE Interwibble, Tim Berners-Lee yesterday launched a foundation to make the Web more useful and accessible to all.
Dubbed the World Wide Web Foundation (WWWF), this extra heavyweight of an organisation plans to improve world democracy, ensure free speech, provide Internet access to all and even improve people’s health.
Admitting that the foundation’s aims were a "very big undertaking" –a whopping 80 per cent of the world's population is currently not connected to the Internet – Sir Berners-Lee did remain optimistic. After all, the web, he reckoned, should not just remain the preserve of pampered execs salivating over the latest MIDs or smartphones.
Asked what he hoped his foundation could achieve in more concrete terms, TBL noted humbly, "If we can accomplish everything I can think of, we'll have failed. " He added that future generations should think about the Internet as something of a blank canvas to wibble away on.
As well as advancing "a web which is open and free," the foundation - to be launched next year using $5 million in funds from the Knight Foundation - will also do its utmost to improve Web standards and interoperability. µ
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Let's hope he means real 'open' web standards and not vole type 'open' standards!
Is Devon still in charge?

Is Michael Knight still a lone crusader, one man making a difference?

Who was the hottie nerdette?
Be nice to have some FREE high-speed internet! I'm scrugglin' to get by! Gas is too high, food prices are too damn high, cat food is too high, even my damn blood pressure is dangerously high!

It costs a testicle and a toenail just to get by! And considering I only have two testytickles, I probably am not gonna last very long! 

I'm not ashamed to say that I eat free government cheese. It's pretty darn good! It does, however, clog me up to where I can't use the bathroom! I swear it feels like I'm trying to pass bowling balls or something when I'm on the T-bowl! I wish the free cheese would come with some free exlacts - sorry I don't know how to spell it - but I'm talking about that chocolate stuff that makes your bowels move! 

Man times are sure hard! I vote for FREE internet and sure hope to see the day when it arrives here in the good ol' USA. 

I love this website and find it very informative!

Thanks and please take care everyone!
Routers, Switches, DSLAM's, PFE, DWDME, Repeaters, BU's etc. all require serious amounts of electricity to feed them, and seriously trained engineers to operate.

Fast decent free access wont happen until its pervasive and practically free to provide in the first place (which it is still a long long way away from).