Every day, every person you meet is the key to your future. The power to change the world is at your fingertips. All you have to do is build your Grid. Earthgrid is a completely new paradigm for the new participatory Internet. It's designed for the instant mass communication of ideas to as many people as possible, as fast as possible
The vision behind Earthgrid was that of a connected culture using the Internet to exchange and collaborate on ideas that benefit the planet. That idea still holds true today.
"Earthgrid is designed to enhance the way we view the online world....it focuses on maximizing the basic principles of communication. As opposed to hundreds of separate files...one cell in a giant web base system...(it)..opens the door for people to communicate with the minimum usage of space.
What this means for the user is a smarter, faster way to access the same information they need for their business or their lives." - Emmet, an active member.
"The original platform however was a core concept of building an interpretive language on top an open-source language that any of our customers could customize their social network to 'look' like their brand.
In 1996, on the island of Kauai, Hawaii while rowing in a two-man canoe up a river to a waterfall, we conceived of this idea to speed up communication using databases instead of flat files. Since the whole world was on dial-up modems, it had to be fast and ultra efficient. Besides...we'd rather surf and lie out at the beach than sit in the office waiting for the e-mail-attachments to come thru....sometimes it took hours. It seemed like the important messages were at the END of all the junk mail and attachments. We had a conceived of a better way to rapidly communicate, and it worked! We could check our messages in a few seconds!
That involved into bringing others into our 'grid' as we called it. We were really the first b2b internet social network. Sharing, photos, music and stories which much of the modern social networks do today wasn't and still isn't our priority. Since most of our members are 'early adopters' of technology, some garage startups and even a few billionaires, privacy and freedom of self expression were and still are some of our core values..." - Viktor Grant, co-founder
