Scott Jenson on Nostr: Remember the "Open Wifi" movement from the early 2000s? The idea was that everyone ...

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