This is a partial reconstruction of the Lafayette Pro Fiber blog that John St. Julien ran for many years, chronicling the grassroots fight for and establishment of LUS Fiber in Louisiana. Many of the links have gone bad and images are missing, but most of the ideas are here and we believe well worth preserving. Site archived by the Community Broadband Networks program of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.
Some of the articles that have disappeared are still available via the WayBack Machine.
JustANote
The world internet audience just topped 1 billion…
The reference world population: near 5 billion*
What’s that mean? Damn if I know. Seems significant though.
*based on the 6.7 billion recent rough estimate and subtracting out the under 15 age group which is excluded from the the 1 billion estimate. CIA Fact Book: World
