Article from Info, December 10, 1995

PANAYOTIS FASOULAS: "O BILL GATES KIE I OMII TOU THA APOFASISOUN!"

Oti o Panayotis Fasoulas ine apo tous kaliterous Ellines basketballistes ine 
mallon wnosto.  Afto pou i perissoteri awnooun ine ta pikila enthiaferonta tou,
pou ftanoun os to horo ton iployiston kie tou Internet.  Ena thiktio me terastia
ektasi kie awnostes wonies ine panta prosito se mia "arahni" kie i sinentefxi 
pou thothike meso tou Internet periehi polles apothixis yi'afto.

O Panayotis ine enas apo tous skapanis tou Internet.  Kathos lei, "ime on line 
apo to 1985 (!), otan itha sto spiti mias filis mou stin Ameriki ti sinthesi tis
me ton Compuserve kie mou yennithike proti fora to enthiaferon ya ta computers.
Vevea, tote then ipirhe Internet, toulahiston me public access, opos tora. Tote,
lipon, sinthethika proti fora me skopo tin on line epikinonia me atoma pou ihan
ta ithia enthiaferonta kie, fisika, to downloading piramatikon prowrammaton ya 
pehnithia".

*Poses ores tin imera ise sto thiktio?

"Polles.  To Web ine ena kenourio pethio, pou ehi tromero enthiaferon an kanis 
ehi ora na perimeni to katevasma ton arhion.  Ki apo ora, emis sta xenothohia, 
allo tipota..."

To mewalitero pososto tou on line hronou tou analonete se apostoles kie 
paralaves email apo thiaforous filous, kirios Ellines, pou ehi apoktisi meso tou
thiktiou se olo ton kosmo.  "Ine omorfo na anaptissis akoma kie ishirous 
thesmous filias me atoma pou then ta ehis thi i akousi pote.  Tous awapas kie 
tous ektimas mono apo ton tropo pou skeftonte.  Then leo, vevea, pos afti ine i
ithaniki shesi filias, alla oposthipote ine xehoristi".

Enas apo aftous tous filous ine o Stathis Avgoustiniatos, "arrostos PAOKtsis" 
pou spouthazi sti Vostoni.  "Otan kapios mou ethose ti thiefthinsi tou Panou 
thiskoleftika na ton pistepso kie to proto email ihe ti morfi test!  Ton rotisa
posous pontous ihe vali se ena pehnithi tou PAOK, alla mou apantise pos then 
sigkrati kati tetia ki etsi ton rotisa pou ihe pai ena vrathi sti Thessaloniki,
pou etihe na ton tho.  Mou apantise sosta ki apo tote (1992) allilowrafoume 
sinehos, an kie meriki fili mou akoma epimenoun pos kapios mou kani plaka meso
tou Internet :-) ".

*Ehis kanena sholio ya tous opathous tou PAOK pou paniyirizan ya ti niki tis
Real epi tou Olimpiakou meso tis Web selithas tous?

"Pote then episkeptome homepages omathon, yati then me enthiaferoun ta athlitika
sto net.  Mono se kat'ithian sizitisis me to filo mou to Stathi..."

Ya ta mionektimata -kathos kie ya to mellon- tou thiktiou, o Panayotis ehi 
sigkekrimenes apopsis.  "To mewalitero mionektima ine i apomonosi apo tous yiro
sou, pou erhete mirea, yati ki afto kapiou ithous narkotiko ine, efoson kanis
katahrisi.  Kie ap'o,ti xero, osi ine sto Internet mallon katahrisi kanoun.  Sto
mellon to Internet tha aplothi toso poli, pou tha erhete pia mesa apo tin 
tileorasi, i opia tha exelihthi se polimeso.  Ta panta tha yinonte mesa apo tin
interactive tileorasi kie mallon to Internet tha ine o foreas tis.  Vevea ola 
tha apofasistoun apo ton Bill Gates kie tous omious tou, pou tha praxoun o,ti 
tous simferi ikonomika".

*Kanena sholio ya to elliniko Internet?

"Mewaliteri tahitita, pethia, yati i arahniazoume i xothevoume periousies 
sintheomeni me exoteriko".

*Ehis xanathosi sinentefxi meso tou Internet?

"Ine i proti fora pou thino.  Ti na pi kanis?  Nei keri, nea ithi".

Written by Themis Kessaris thkessaris@mail.hol.gr.

Thanks to Kostas Giannakidis johndis@hyper.gr for the help in the conversion of the font.

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Stathis Avgoustiniatos / eavgoust@mit.edu / September 1996