{"id":4215,"date":"2022-01-02T14:36:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T13:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/02\/the-italian-hamlet-that-gives-a-glimpse-of-life-before-the-web\/"},"modified":"2022-01-02T14:36:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T13:36:52","slug":"the-italian-hamlet-that-gives-a-glimpse-of-life-before-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/02\/the-italian-hamlet-that-gives-a-glimpse-of-life-before-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"The Italian hamlet that gives a glimpse of life before the web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Galliano di Mugello\u2019s poor signal has endeared it to Italians, but the mayor hopes to use recent publicity to close the digital divide<\/p>\n<p>At the cafe that doubles-up as a newsagent in Galliano di Mugello, a medieval hamlet in Tuscany, there are no pings from mobile phones, people aimlessly browsing the internet or uploading pictures of their cappuccino to Instagram. Instead, customers read the newspaper \u2013 their main source of information on the outside world \u2013 or talk to each other.<\/p>\n<p>Surrounded by Tuscany\u2019s postcard perfect cypress trees and rolling hills, Galliano di Mugello, would be a haven for those wanting a digital detox. But the absence of mobile phone coverage is a much less endearing quirk for the 1,300 or so inhabitants, who are starting to rise up against not being able to make a call, send a text or search for something on Google on their handsets.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/02\/the-italian-hamlet-that-gives-a-glimpse-of-life-before-the-web\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ca8da16961e7b904f865718d7dd517827560cc90\/161_56_3749_2250\/master\/3749.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e37258c2fc769f4cfd414207d7191820\" title=\"The Italian hamlet that gives a glimpse of life before the web\" \/>Galliano di Mugello\u2019s poor signal has endeared it to Italians, but the mayor hopes to use recent publicity to close the digital divide<br \/>\nAt the cafe that doubles-up as a newsagent in Galliano di Mugello, a medieval hamlet in Tuscany, there are no pings from mobile phones, people aimlessly browsing the internet or uploading pictures of their cappuccino to Instagram. Instead, customers read the newspaper \u2013 their main source of information on the outside world \u2013 or talk to each other.<br \/>\nSurrounded by Tuscany\u2019s postcard perfect cypress trees and rolling hills, Galliano di Mugello, would be a haven for those wanting a digital detox. But the absence of mobile phone coverage is a much less endearing quirk for the 1,300 or so inhabitants, who are starting to rise up against not being able to make a call, send a text or search for something on Google on their handsets. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galliano di Mugello\u2019s poor signal has endeared it to Italians, but the mayor hopes to use recent publicity to close the digital divide At the cafe that doubles-up as a newsagent in Galliano di Mugello, a medieval hamlet in Tuscany, there are no pings from mobile phones, people aimlessly browsing the internet or uploading pictures &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/02\/the-italian-hamlet-that-gives-a-glimpse-of-life-before-the-web\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Italian hamlet that gives a glimpse of life before the web<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}