In my experience, in 1999 I was living in the same region with an
NGO
working for a backbone network.
And the NGO helped me to put my Linux server in their network for free.
In the age of non-democratized computer and internet, some
organizations helped for the new technologies.
My mistake. Maybe it was not "NGO" but "NPO" (NonProfit
Organization).
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