Editing Seattle Wireless

[[Image:seattlewireless.png|right]]'''Seattle Wireless''' was an American [[Non-profit organization|non-profit project]] created by Matt Westervelt and Ken Caruso in June 2000.<ref>Cave, Damien, [http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/12/01/wireless_ethernet/index.html "Unchaining the Net"], ''[[Salon.com]]'', 2000-12-01</ref> 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.

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 [http://tv.seattlewireless.net 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 (protocol)|Bittorrent]] to distribute its shows.

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110208131653/http://www.seattlewireless.net/ Official website] 
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110303143022/http://seattlewireless.net/~mattw/ Matt's Blog] 
*[http://planet.seattlewireless.net/ Seattle Wireless Blog Planet]
*[http://peteryorke.net Peter Yorke's Blog]
*Kahney, Leander, [http://www.thefeaturearchives.com/11171.html "Home-grown Wireless Networks"], ''[[TheFeature]]'', 2001-05-07
*Fleishman, Glenn, [http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/0129/tech-fleishman.php "The revolution may be wireless"], ''[[Seattle Weekly]]'', 2001-07-18
*O'Shea, Dan, [http://telephonyonline.com/mag/telecom_peace_love_wifi/index.html "Peace, Love & Wi-Fi"], ''Telephony Online'', 2002-05-18
*Kharif, Olga, [https://web.archive.org/web/20020918012302/http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2002/tc20020917_7206.htm "Footing the Bill for Free Wi-Fi"], ''[[BusinessWeek]]'', 2002-09-17
*[http://www.seattlepi.com/business/217728_theinsider28.html "The Insider: Lucky few are going locomotive over Wi-Fi access"], ''[[Seattle PI]]'', 2005-03-28

[[Category:Wireless network organizations]]


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