Hello! I am Robert Dinse, the founder, owner, and operator of Eskimo
North.
Eskimo North was started as a BBS running on a Trs-80 model III in 1982,
grew into a multi-line Unix time-share service, and then a full-service ISP
providing a broad range of Internet access and hosting services.
I've been interested in communications all my life, and specifically in
providing the ability for the common person to communicate to a wide
audience.
I had an interest in pirate and public non-commercial radio when I was in Jr
High and High School because I felt at the time that commercial radio did not
fairly represent the broad spectrum of human interests and opinions. Thirty
years later I still feel this way. In fact, with the demise of the broadcast
ownership restrictions when broadcast rules were rewritten in the 1996
Telecommunications Act, broadcast is now controlled in major markets by only
three large corporations with the result being an almost total lack of diverse
opinions or local content.
After high school I attempted to earn a living in commercial broadcast
engineering but just was not successful in breaking into a large market with
little experience. I ended up working for PNB telephone company, which got
swallowed up by US West which later changed it's name to Qwest for 17 years. In
1995 I left the telephone company to devote full time to running Eskimo
North. Providing these services are a way I can still give the common man
access to a wide audience so that everyone's ideas can be heard. Below are
some of my personal sites.
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