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adm@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au (David Moss) did cunningly address to aus.net.news..
:Ken Taylor <k.taylor@bom.gov.au> writes:
:>I can't see an economic reason, but DO accept the social justice
:>reason. However, social justice doesn't seem to me to apply to
:>anyone with the means to be on the Net!

:You may be pushing it a little there.
:It costs very little to get on the net if you aren't hung up
:with having the latest, greatest and fastest equipment.

:A few years back I used to get around the net using a 2400baud
:modem and an IBMXT with monochrome monitor. You find that
:sort of thing lying around the tip nowadays.

I do believe that our friend, David Gerard uses lower tech than that (!).. a
modem connected to a simple VT102 terminal.. I'm having a bash at getting one
of those Directronics videotex terminals going.. has an internal modem and
connects to your television. Picked it up at an Op Shop for the sum total of
-one dollar-.

Aside from the ISP charges, the internet is available to anyone with enough
time to put into learning what it's about. And with the masses of information
available, you'd need to be very dull indeed not to be interested or benefit
from that time investment.

The benefits for the unemployed, etc, from the internet cannot be
underestimated. I've managed to score quite a few interviews (and a couple of
jobs) using this medium.

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