Cloth Map earlier this year visited Havana, Cuba and got a chance to talk to the people behind SNET (street network), a local, grassroots, wired & wireless intranet system there:...
It's insanely impressive what the SNET people have managed to do with very little resources, incredibly sparse, expensive, and slow internet access and no official support from the government there. It's well worth a watch if you're interested in this sort of decentralized internet/intranet topic.
Cloth Map earlier this year visited Havana, Cuba and got a chance to talk to the people behind SNET (street network), a local, grassroots, wired & wireless intranet system there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEplzHraw3c#t=3m27s
It's insanely impressive what the SNET people have managed to do with very little resources, incredibly sparse, expensive, and slow internet access and no official support from the government there. It's well worth a watch if you're interested in this sort of decentralized internet/intranet topic.
edit: fixed broken link, sorry about that :(
oh man, this is amazing, reminds me of the early internet.