freenet

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freenet - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Freenet
  
     Community-based bulletin board system with e-mail, information
     services, interactive communications, and conferencing.
     Freenets are funded and operated by individuals and volunteers
     - in one sense, like public television.  They are part of the
     National Public Telecomputing Network (NPTN), an organisation
     based in Cleveland, Ohio, devoted to making computer
     telecommunication and networking services as freely available
     as public libraries.