Oh, I know! The internet should go REALLY FAST and Ethernet should be EVERYWHERE. What an original thought you've had, there. NOT.
Especially if you live in or around Mountain View, Sunnyvale, or Santa Clara, CA. Of course,
we tried to get Palo Alto to think and act toward these ends in 1997 ... but you know The People's Republic of Palo Alto reputation for leadership, right?
Actually,
MetoFi,
Google Wifi, and several others nationwide and worldwide have been doing this for some time now. So this definitely qualifies for the Too Late, Somebody is Already Doing That roll call.
This idea is sufficiently retro that it almost doesn't even qualify as new. After all, Yahoo started out as little more than a list of categories, from which users self-narrowed the search on the front-end, after which users could either browse, or search more specifically. It's seeing a resurgence lately, with a few "new" twists like tagging; as if tagging could still be considered novel; but anyway you look at it, you're Too Late, Somebody Else is Already Doing That. E.g., take a comparative look at accoona - News Search - "Net Neutrality" versus Kosmix - US Politics - "Net Neutrality".
