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Blicero: We found ourselves at the center of history, but this isn’t something you plan in advance… anyone, even in the future, that finds themselves in the same situation, will find themselves there because they are doing things and they are stubborn, for a number of reasons that can’t be planned. After Genoa, as A/I we continued to encourage the multiplication of servers. Indivia, Oziosi, and other similar projects were born that are very important to us. In the meantime, we gave technical support and looked after all aspects of the movement’s communications channels, from radio stations to pirate TV. But despite the creation of other independent servers, the majority of the work fell on A/I. Man0: In some way, the political, organizational, and even the technical aspect caused a lot of people to choose Autistici. To tell the truth, not knowing the prospects of Teknusi, I did too – of course I always recommended Autistici’s services. Except for those things that Autistici doesn’t provide much support for, like streaming, which needs a lot of bandwidth. For this we’ve raised funds… quite often we resorted to self-financing… we put up a server of our own and used it for streaming. And so A/I, a project begun a few months earlier with the idea of following ECN’s model, suddenly found itself both witnessing and building the movement’s transition from analog to digital.