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kat (boneidol@indy.im)'s status on Sunday, 17-Feb-2019 12:22:53 UTC kat #AncientHistories #Geek 802.11 wireless networks at the beginning of the century.
It seemed to be a time where technology and local community activism aligned, where software protocols could mirror liberatory social politics... And it seemed a global phenomena. I was interviewed by Japanese research students who were travelling to visit different international community networks.
There was the "pico-peering agreement" http://www.picopeer.net/PPA-en.shtml
the consume.net manifesto http://dek.spc.org/julian/consume/consume.html
Metrics such as "geek activist per sq km" to measure resilience of networks
http://julianpriest.org/texts/the-state-of-wireless-london/2/
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kat (boneidol@indy.im)'s status on Sunday, 17-Feb-2019 13:31:04 UTC kat @bob There were small mesh networks linking squats and social centres in London. Areas of Deptford had mesh networks. Southampton. Manchester. Sheffield. Alston Cybermoor. http://www.cybermoor.org/index.php/cybermoor-networks/background
There were different community models, CIC's, different reasons for wanting to build mesh networks, different communities ( example, people who can't get broadband in rural UK, communities of refugees in inner cities who can't afford ISP's)
The geek per sq. Km density changed. Broadband dropped in price, people's lives changed. -
kat (boneidol@indy.im)'s status on Sunday, 17-Feb-2019 13:34:34 UTC kat @bob I had a friend did some work at NYC Wireless, I used to use NYC pebble Linux on old PC's to build mesh routers
https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6897
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