Wired in the Woods

摘要

Sylvester, GA., a community of 5,000, is the quintessential small farming town. The main thoroughfare consists of a Hardees, a Dairy Queen and a couple of diners. "We're such a small bump in the road that driving through Sylvester is like hitting an armadillo at 60 miles an hour," drawls local businessman David Register. "You'd hardly notice." Bump or no, Sylvester is in the vanguard of the information revolution. Since last September, the town has had in place its own community computer network, called the Worth County-Sylvester Free-Net. With some 400 regulars, the local network offers everything from USA Today to the latest news on federal farming legislation to information on the movies playing in theaters in Albany, a half-hour drive away.