Word: freenet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...different?'' asks David Sutherland, head of computing and communications at Ottawa's Carleton University. ``The answer is typically Canadian: yes and no. Because of our cultural differences, we seem more bent on local activity than on reaching across the country.'' In that spirit, Canadians have more local ``freenet'' connections per capita than their southern cousins -- a total of nine community services that provide free local access to the Internet. Canadians also claim a computer culture that is both more open and more self- regulating than in the U.S. ``Our philosophy is to permit an open dialogue'' with as little policing...