Al's House of Meats. A centre for free speech, and open thought. ahom was one of the many systems jacked into the environment we call tabnet, but unlike most of the other systems connected ahom was an extension of tabnet, or perhaps the opposite was true. nonetheless ahom was a centre of information exchange much the way tabnet was, but at times could be more personal and more intense.

Al's House of Meats was an experiment in BBS politics whereby though it was run on the computer of the local sysop, James Joyce, all active users were eventually granted sysop access and encouraged to use it in the creation of new message / file bases, and more where possible. A combination of anarchy and democracy at its finest in this information age, what made it function beautifully also became its downfall.

AHoM stands for Al's House of Meats. Node 13:13/42 of TabNet. They have taken the TabNet ideals to an extreme. Self expression and exploration through cyberspace. Poetry, art, sex, drugs, techno! It's all here! Well, rather, it was.