Seattle Wireless was an American non-profit project created by Matt Westervelt and Ken Caruso in June 2000.Cave, Damien
"Unchaining the Net"
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'', 2000-12-01 It sought to develop a free, locally owned

wireless community network Wireless community networks or wireless community projects or simply community networks, are non-centralized, self-managed and collaborative networks organized in a grassroots fashion by communities, non-governmental organizations and cooperatives ...

using widely available, license-free technology

wireless Wireless communication (or just wireless, when the context allows) is the transfer of information (''telecommunication'') between two or more points without the use of an electrical conductor, optical fiber or other continuous guided transm ...

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access. It is a

metropolitan area network A metropolitan area network (MAN) is a computer network that interconnects users with computer resources in a geographic region of the size of a metropolitan area. The term MAN is applied to the interconnection of local area networks (LANs) in ...

. As of 2016, Seattle Wireless is no longer operational. 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, calle
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 BitTorrent is a Protocol (computing), communication protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P), which enables users to distribute data and electronic files over the Internet in a Decentralised system, decentralized manner. The protocol is d ...

to distribute its shows.

References

External links

Official website

Matt's Blog

Seattle Wireless Blog PlanetPeter Yorke's Blog
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'', 2001-05-07 *Fleishman, Glenn
"The revolution may be wireless"
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Seattle Weekly The ''Seattle Weekly'' is an alternative biweekly distributed newspaper in Seattle, Washington, United States. It was founded by Darrell Oldham and David Brewster as ''The Weekly.'' Its first issue was published on March 31, 1976, and it becam ...

'', 2001-07-18 *O'Shea, Dan
"Peace, Love & Wi-Fi"
''Telephony Online'', 2002-05-18 *Kharif, Olga

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'', 2002-09-17
"The Insider: Lucky few are going locomotive over Wi-Fi access"
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'', 2005-03-28 Wireless network organizations {{wireless-stub