As I write this post, it's spring again, about 18 months after the Problem. The power is getting more stable, and I was able to fire up the computers and try to connect to the Net. I had some successes, but I kept connections short. I was still worried about somebody tracking my calls.
At the beginning of all of these posts, I told you how I was able to gradually connect to the Net and access some servers. And since you are reading this, you are also connected to the Net.
I started these posts to try to explain how the Net broke down, and who was responsible. The 'delay packets' were the main cause, as I have told you in earlier posts. And I wrote how I was able to track them down to the program that the FBI initially wrote to track criminal activity. And how the program spread to be used by other government security agencies. And how the routers, where all the data packets travel through, were compromised by the delay packets, eventually bringing down the Net.
And how, because the Net was such a big part of all of the world's economy and lifestyle, when the Net died, it was a major Problem.
I suspect, though, that many of you are wondering why I didn't try to get help when I discovered what had happened, and what I feared would happen. Why didn't I spread the word on the Net? The Net was a big part of communications then, and spreading the word about the problem would have been quite easy. It's not like I was a 'master hacker' who had more knowledge and experience than anyone.
I've thought a lot about those questions over the last eighteen months.
I suppose I ought to tell you the part that I have left out.