ascii in de 'Red Herring'

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From: squatter (squatter@dds.nl)
Date: 10/21/00


Wat doet de ascii in een amerikaans technologie-investeerdersblad? Wellicht
kunnen we op hun benefiet ook aandelen kopen???

Red Herring:

                                                          October 21, 2000
               Good stuff
               ASCII salvages junk. 

               By Kenneth Neil Cukier
               From the October 2000 issue 

               Around the corner from a tranquil canal in Amsterdam is
               a radically new-age cybercafe, a sort of Amnesty
               International-meets-Scott McNealy. Anti-Microsoft
               (Nasdaq: MSFT) to the core, it's called ASCII -- not the
               7-bit digital Roman alphabet, but the Amsterdam
               Subversive Code for Information Interchange. It might
               represent the future of the Internet zeitgeist, a testament
               to how good people can put the Net to good uses, an almost
               forgotten concept in this age of dot-com greed. 

               Located in a small basement underneath an anarchist
               bookshop, ASCII is a coöperative comprised of around 30
               volunteers who rejigger archaic computers from the '80s
               to mid-'90s so they work essentially as network
               computers, useful for surfing the Net and not much else.
               Vintage office IBMs, Apples, PC Ataris, and odd East
               German computers dot the tables. Heavy wires worm
               along the walls and stream down from the ceiling like
               cyber stalactites in a digital dungeon. And, of course, it all
               runs on Linux. 

               The ASCII project is a humanitarian one above all. With
               donated computers, techies donate their time to bring
               Internet access and computer hardware to youth
               organizations and schools in low-income areas of the
               Netherlands. As a cybercafe, ASCII is as noncommercial
               as it gets. Surfing the Net is free, and bottles of beer are
               sold just slightly above cost to pay rent (the group worked
               in a squat until it got evicted). 

               As one volunteer engineer put it, ASCII's aim is to prove
               that the IT industry's upgrade ethos and reliance on
               Microsoft is unnecessary. The ASCII Web site is at
               http://squat.net/ascii. 

               ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

               Additional information on ASCII from the group's Web
               site. 

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