Remember the "Open Wifi" movement from the early 2000s? The idea was that everyone was going to have their wifi routers open with a "mesh network protocol" over the top that would allow an entire city to have their own blanket networking.
I can certainly image why this is overly simplistic, just curious if anyone has any specifics as to why it fell apart.
The reason I'm asking is that this appears to be a common pattern
I got this from this 2005 #TedTalk
https://www.ted.com/talks/yochai_benkler_the_new_open_source_economics?language=en
#Wifi
@scottjenson FWIW I suspect that some of it was related to the amount of overhead that mesh networking involved.
Pure speculation, but at the time the network links were not that fast in the first place, and if half of the bandwidth was taken up by overhead related to managing the ad hoc nature of the mesh, that really ate into the benefits of the system.
And then there were legalities.
But yeah again just speculating, but it seems like at the time the technology wasn't fast enough for support it, and by the time the tech was fast enough there were other options so it became less interesting altogether.
