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Pedal Power brings Web to Laos
SJ Mercury News ^
| 2/17/03
| Daniel Lovering - AP
Posted on 02/17/2003 10:32:29 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:30:24 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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BAN PHON KHAM, Laos - Villagers in this remote jungle hamlet have lived for years without electricity or telephones, relying on occasional visitors and a sluggish postal system for news of the outside world.
But soon many of its residents will be jumping on stationary bikes to pedal their way onto the Information Superhighway.
(Excerpt) Read more at bayarea.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: laos; pedal; power
I wish I had one of those stationery bikes for web browsing.
I'd be real skinny .. real quick.
To: NormsRevenge
I saw the title and visualized Web Hubble on a bicycle. Not a pretty sight.
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posted on
02/17/2003 10:37:45 PM PST
by
dc-zoo
To: dc-zoo
Good catch! I wonder how he got across the Bering Strait?
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posted on
02/17/2003 10:43:24 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi.. For Sale .. Media Pundits & Certain Euro "Allies" .. Cheap!)
To: NormsRevenge
Too bad the peaceniks successfully convinced Congress to abandon the people in that part of the world. Two and half million were murdered by the Communists who took over and now their only way to access the internet is by using a stationary bike for power. Ah, if only the "progressives" were really interested in progress.
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