Tech Nonprofit 'DigitalC' Wants to Help Cleveland Innovate
DigitalC | March 16, 2017
In the 1980s, the Cleveland Freenet was one of the very first online repositories of information. But in '01 Cleveland was still licking its wounds from the end of steel and auto and really hadn't managed to lift its chin up to see over the horizon. Most people in Cleveland thought fiber was something you put in your cereal. Almost everyone in Cleveland took a pass on the internet as a passing fad. A handful of people who'd made investments lost their shirt. Universities like Case Western took a pass.