Optus takes full control of Excite@Home Australia.
“Moshe Bar has an excellent article at Byte describing how he designed a wireless freenet for his community, and convinced his neighbors to participate. Most importantly, the freenet has resulted in new forms of interaction and strengthened social ties within his own local community (the inverse of what happens on the wider Internet).”
Comment stolen from Slashdot.
A Wireless Neighbourhood Freenet.