Explain a wiki to someone in the early 2000s and the response was typically “Wait so anyone can edit any page? Why would you do that?” Wikis as we know them came to life in the mid 90s and went mainstream thanks to Wikipedia‘s launch in January 2001. A lesser known chapter of wiki history…
Author: Ken
Seattlewireless TV Episode 1
“I can’t imagine SWN TV episodes are still online, maybe the eons old torrents are still active?” But low and behold they are on the Internet Archive. The first episode includes: Coverage of The Personal Telco Project in Portland, OR An interview with Rob Flickenger of Nocat and Pringles fame. Risto Kõiva shows off how…
If a website falls of the Internet, did it ever exist?
Imagine a world without the Internet Archive Have you searched for a blog post you read years ago, only to find out the site is gone? Do you have an old home page you never backed up but want to re-create? Hopefully its in the Internet Archive. I am researching the community wireless movement and…
Community Wireless Networks – Rebooting Freenetworks.org
Seattlewireless.net I registered Freenetworks.org in December of 2000 after an unexpected series of events dropped me into the heart of a growing movement in community wireless networks. Earlier in the year I was LAN gaming with my neighbor and we had an idea. “How awesome would it be to run a network cable up the street…