Flyguy

I got to thinking and I was wondering. Why do we all need to go thorugh middlemen to access the internet? I mean, why can't we all build our own servers and just log on? How complicated can it really be? Is it a matter of bandwidth? Is it all the equipment involved? Isn't the internet supposed to be free? What is it that keeps up from doing this? Just wanted to get everyone's thoughts on this pondering thought.