Seattle Wireless was an American non-profit project created by Matt Westervelt and Ken Caruso in June 2000.[1] It sought to develop a free, locally owned wireless community network using widely available, license-free technology wireless broadband Internet access. It is a metropolitan area network. As of 2016, Seattle Wireless is no longer operational.
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Seattle Wireless was one of the first Community Wireless Networks and one of the first project focused wikis. It also had a short lived (7 episode) online television show, called Seattle Wireless TV. It was created by Peter Yorke and Michael Pierce and ran July 2003 - June 2004. SWTV was an early adopter of Bittorrent to distribute its shows.
References
edit- ^ Cave, Damien, "Unchaining the Net", Salon.com, 2000-12-01
External links
edit- Official website
- Matt's Blog
- Seattle Wireless Blog Planet
- Peter Yorke's Blog
- Kahney, Leander, "Home-grown Wireless Networks", TheFeature, 2001-05-07
- Fleishman, Glenn, "The revolution may be wireless", Seattle Weekly, 2001-07-18
- O'Shea, Dan, "Peace, Love & Wi-Fi", Telephony Online, 2002-05-18
- Kharif, Olga, "Footing the Bill for Free Wi-Fi", BusinessWeek, 2002-09-17
- "The Insider: Lucky few are going locomotive over Wi-Fi access", Seattle PI, 2005-03-28