Community Network - History

History

Among the earliest practices that are frequently mentioned are Big Sky Telegraph (Montana, USA), Cleveland Free-Net (Cleveland, USA) Public Electronic Network (PEN) in Santa Monica (California, USA), Digital Stad in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) .

Bryggenet is a community network in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Fox Cities Online (FOCOL) is a community network in the Fox Cities region of Wisconsin that has been in operation since the early 1990s.

VillageSoup created the first community network based on a business model suggested in the 1997 book Net Gain: Expanding Markets Through Virtual Communities, authored by John Hagel III and Arthur G. Armstrong, two Mckinsey & Company, Inc. consultants.

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