Network Commons: dawn of an idea (Chapter 1, part 2 - Draft)

Armin Medosch — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 09:35:04 +0000

Topic:

Consume
wireless community networks

Special tag:

Free Networks

Good ideas often pop up at the same time at various points on the Earth, they just seem to be in the air. And so it came that around the year 2000 at different points on the globe wireless free community networks were started: Consume.net in London, New York Wireless, Seattle Wireless and Personal Telco, in Portland Oregon, were among the first wireless community networks based on Wireless LAN, or WLAN. Nobody really can say which one came first. I have been lucky to experience the development of Consume and free2air.org in London from a close encounter. Therefore, in this chapter I will tell the story of those networks.