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Monday, July 08, 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,53638,00.html Wi-Fi Users: Chalk This Way )( Paul Boutin SAN FRANCISCO -- No, it's not the Burning Man logo. The iconic sign in a storefront window along downtown San Francisco's busy Folsom Street is there to alert passersby to the presence of an available 802.11b wireless network. Its double-curve symbol is one of the few physical manifestations of this year's fastest-spreading tech fad: warchalking. Warchalking, it seems, is so cool it doesn't even matter if anyone is really doing it or not. London information architect Matt Jones proposed and named the concept last month. Wireless wanderers who stumbled across open networks, Jones suggested, should mark their location with a recognizable symbol on nearby walls. That way, others following in their footsteps would find them even with laptops closed....
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