CFN & Y2K: Free Computer Network Goes Offline

[Joe Mabel]

Hard to know what to make of this.  Almost seems like a hoax, or at least a 
partial misunderstanding, although I don't doubt Cleveland Freenet is going 
out of existence.  Unlike our SCN, I gather they never really made the 
transition to the Web & they are more of a glorified BBS.  Shutting that 
down would just be the recongnition that their software has gone from 
obselescent to obsolete.

Still, it's bizarre that they are closing shop instead of transitioning. 
Must be far more to the story than this, and they are blaming the software 
for an institutional problem.

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From:	Brian High [SMTP:kv9x at scn.org]
Sent:	Thursday, August 05, 1999 4:41 PM
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Subject:	CFN & Y2K: Free Computer Network Goes Offline

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Thursday August 5 5:05 AM ET

Free Computer Network Goes Offline

CLEVELAND (AP) - Cleveland Free-Net, the nation's first free
community computer network, is already a victim of the Year 2000
bug.

The system, which started as an electronic bulletin board in 1984
at Case Western Reserve University, is scheduled to go out of
business on Oct. 1. Its operators said the system would self-destruct at
year's end because the computer program written for it can't recognize
the year 2000.

Operators have decided to get out early.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/ap/technology/story.html?s=v/ap/199  
90805/tc/free_net_demise_1.html
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