{"id":15123,"date":"2015-10-10T06:54:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T13:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15123"},"modified":"2015-10-10T06:54:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T13:54:56","slug":"kics-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15123","title":{"rendered":"KICS RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15124\" style=\"margin-top: -50px;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kics.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"311\" height=\"97\" \/>This blog does not usually concern itself with the activities of people. That is the domain\u00a0of news organizations and social media. This posting is an exception: I laud KICS.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The web is so much a part of our lives now that it is hard to imagine a time before it came to be. Yet, only twenty years ago, virtually no one in the public had heard of it and the combination of words,\u00a0<i>dot com<\/i> or <i>dot ca,<\/i> was not on our radar. However, the power of this new communications medium was evident to a few prescient locals. The Kootenay Internet Communications Society (KICS) was launched as a volunteer service in 1997 to provide individuals with email service and organizations, particularly local nonprofits, with website support.<\/p>\n<p>Now, eighteen years later\u00a0there are a great many commercial options available and KICS feels it has fulfilled its mandate. As of November 1<sup>st<\/sup>, KICS will have completed its mission. Our community looks different now than it did in the mid 1990s: Everyone is connected and communicating. A good deal of the local transition was eased as a result of the efforts of the volunteers who established and ran KICS.<\/p>\n<p>This posting is the first to be made on this blog that hasn&#8217;t\u00a0been delivered from a KICS server. I remain in its\u00a0debt for supporting my efforts; many in the\u00a0community remain\u00a0in its\u00a0debt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The web was new in the 1990s.\u00a0The prescient volunteers of KICS recognized the potential advantages to our community. They arrived with sustenance when we didn&#8217;t even understand we wanted it.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15126\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/kestrel110724as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This blog does not usually concern itself with the activities of people. That is the domain\u00a0of news organizations and social media. This posting is an exception: I laud KICS.\u00a0 The web is so much a part of our lives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15123\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15123"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15157,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15123\/revisions\/15157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}