About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 65. Chapters: Albino Blacksheep, Anime News Network, Applied Foresight Network, AskMen, BabyCenter, Ballast (website), Bear 71, Bestgore.com, Bullpoo, Canada's Top 100 Employers, CanadaUpdates, Canada GE3LS, Canadian Communications Foundation, Canadian Health Network, Canadian Parliamentary Guide, Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary, CareerAIM.com, CareerBuilder.ca, Career Edge Organization, CBC.ca, Clinicbook, Connexions (website), Cymax Stores, Design 1st, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Dollarton Cantech Letter, Eluta.ca, FetLife, Fps magazine, Frank (magazine), GCPEDIA, Goblins (webcomic), Heaven's Stairway, ICraveTV, Jam!, Jihadunspun.com, Knitty, Kobo Inc., LearnAlberta.ca, LexUM, ManCrunch, MetroLyrics, Milnet.ca, MontrealTechWatch, Moola (website), National Capital Freenet, Nizkor Project, One Millionth Tower, One red paperclip, Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance, Ontario Educational Resource Bank, Orato, Out My Window, PlentyofFish, Qiniq, Schematic Integrity Analysis, SkillGround, SSI Micro, Stile Project, Taiyangbao, TalentEgg, Tetes a claques, The Canadian Encyclopedia, The Mark News, The Tyee, The Zimmer Twins, TOU.TV, Trailervision, Twitch Film, Universe Today, Welcome to Pine Point, Working in Canada, Workopolis, Xtube, ZeD. Excerpt: National Capital Freenet (NCF) (French: Libertel de la Capitale Nationale), is a non-profit community organization internet service provider, with the goal of linking people in Canada's capital of Ottawa and ensuring no Ottawa citizens would be excluded from internet access. Founded in September 1992 with the active participation of volunteers, Carleton University, and private industry (which donated communications equipment), NCF was the second free-net set up worldwide and was patterned after the Cleveland Free-Net that had been established at Case Western Reserve University in 1984. Within a year of its establishment NCF had over 10,000 members. As of January 28, 2012, at least 4,000 members use NCF's dial-up Internet service. In many ways the history of NCF parallels that of the Internet itself. In the early 1990s NCF was the region's only service provider and members flocked to it to take advantage of the new technology. Due to its volunteer and donation-based model the organization failed to keep up with the rapid technological changes that occurred in the 1995-2000 period and lost most of its membership to commercial ISPs as a result. Later it floundered trying to make ends meet and finally established itself in the niche market of providing services to disadvantaged segments of the community. NCF board member Jim Elder summarized NCF's early history: "NCF surfed the wave of Internet success in the first-half of the 1990s, but fell off in 1995 and then tread water. NCF regained some of its 'mojo' in the early 2000s, when funding from Industry Canada's SmartCapital program and several partners helped NCF modernize its back office system and web pages, bringing NCF firmly into the web era." The early days of this free-net featured dial up service and web access using the Lynx browser. Members typically used the system to access usenet, telnet, e-mail and Gopher. As the web became popular many new Internet users became NCF members before they went to a PPP provi
