A few years ago Time Warner blocked free access to the newsgroups, the bulletin boards that were older than the internet. We were one of the first customers in this area when TW test marketed their Roadrunner service and I remember telling everyone how great their service was. Yesterday they sent us this little note.
Dear Road Runner Subscriber,
You are receiving this email because you have used the Personal Home Page service that Road Runner provides.
Road Runner will no longer offer the Personal Home Page service, effective January 31, 2011.
Sincerely,
Road Runner
Corporate Customer Care
I don’t even remember how to access our personal homepage but for the last ten years my father has maintained a small site about Brighton’s brick industry on his personal home page so I called him to discuss moving the site. I’d move our internet access too if I had choice.
While I was on the phone with my father he described this recent Ann Telnaes’ cartoon and asked if I had read the article about the worm that got into the computer’s controlling Iran’s nuclear arsenal. I had sort of skimmed it so I went back to it. It reads like a real game changer. If only we had disarmed Iraq’s weapons that way. Wait, they never had any.
My father also asked if I had seen James McMullan’s newest entry to his blog on drawing. I had not. How does my fatrher keep up with all this? I just spent the last hour here and I plan to go back for more as soon as I get a little work done.
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