Around 1991 I offered (dial-up) internet to the school district offices in Boston for $1/month/office, 10 districts, $10/month, $120/year, shareable accounts. The person from the board of ed I was talking to said free would be a problem as it might be seen as some sort of graft etc. and might be complicated to "clean up". I figured it might let them play around with it and "inject" it into the culture and we could go from there. The person I was speaking to knew what the internet was etc. and was appreciative of the offer. It seemed like a start. A couple of weeks later she calls me and says the response from her powers that be was: If we have $120/year to waste on internet connections ``we'' can think of other uses for that $120!!!" so thanks but no thanks. The Boston education budget is about $800M today, so maybe it was $500M back then? Whatever, hundreds of millions. But they fight over the crumbs! -b