Each community needs to validate the benefits of BOTH local telecomputing and Full Internet access without a great initial expense. Local bulletin boards provide an economical first step that MOST communities can easily take. Internet email, Internet discussion conferences, and Internet high-value resources can all be made easily available via a local phone call on a local bulletin board system with distributed conferencing.

Those citizens that wish to sample Full Internet access can do so on an hourly rate through dialup and/or SLIP connections, to identify how the local community might benefit from 24 hour Full Internet access. Once a community can see how they might benefit from 24 hour Full Internet access, they can endure that considerable expense while still benefiting from the many other advantages of their own local customizable dialup network.

ADVANTAGES OF ONLINE INSTRUCTION