RIP: RIP Colonel Dave Hughes (aka The Cursor Cowboy) has passed on

From: David Hughes <da***@ol*****.com>
Subject: Colonel Dave Hughes
Date: October 15, 2021 at 8:33:33 PM EDT

Colonel Dave Hughes passed away last eve, Oct 14th, 2021. He was 93.
Family will be posting more over the next few days to http://davehughes.oldcolo.com and also a Facebook presence.
If one accesses the web site, have patience as it is getting accessed hence is sloggy.

[Note: This email was sent to me by Dave’s son David.  Dave Hughes was a close personal friend of mine and we worked together on a number of wireless projects over the years, the most significant was an NSF funded effort to bring the Internet to Mongolia in 1996. Dave was one of a kind and will be missed by many. So say we all! DLH]

From: David Hughes <da***@ol*****.com>
Subject: Colonel Dave Hughes
Date: October 15, 2021 at 8:33:33 PM EDT

I am likely pushing this into your maillist DeWayne.  Beg pardon if inappropriate but admit was lazy due to non stop addressing, stuff, today.

Anywayz…

Colonel Dave Hughes passed away last eve, Oct 14th, 2021. He was 93.
Family will be posting more over the next few days to http://davehughes.oldcolo.com and also a Facebook presence.
If one accesses the web site, have patience as it is getting accessed hence is sloggy.

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The Educational CyberPlayGround has honored Colonel Dave Hughes, over the past 30+ years. Dave always did everything he could to help the K12 Schools especially rural schools across America get wired to the internet and enjoy broadband speed. He was a champion of affordable broadband, wifi, and connectivity.

“You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.” — Albert Einstein

This is dedicated to all the kids in 1938 who first built and used Ham Radios then later grew up to be the generation who fought and won World War 2.

Get your school involved with ham radio operation. We need them in an emergency because the Cell Phones Don’t Work!

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Dave Hughes is probably the premier technical and policy facilitator in grass-roots community networking. In 1981, he started what may be the first bulletin board system (BBS) whose goal was to empower the local public politically. Since then, Hughes has traveled around the world in an effort to bring some of the most disenfranchised and isolated communities into the electronic age. “I told my sons to bury me in a grave with space enough for an Internet connection so I can come back and keep giving ’em hell.”

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Gleason was the First to wire North Dakota’s K-16 schools to the internet retired in 2004. NetHappenings, formally moderated by Gleason Sackmann now Karen Ellis.

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