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Telegarden (1995)
- jdsully 7y agoI would be really curious how they stopped ne'er-do-wells from damaging the plants intentionally.
- LeoPanthera 7y agoThe barrier to entry of the internet in 1995 was considerably higher. It's one of the reasons why early net users were so optimistic about its potential.
- ddunkin 7y agoSome painful combo of Trumpet Winsock/Win 3.1/Netscape at that time if I wanted more than just lynx, all received via xmodem from the local ISPs shell server using Telix. No Google, maybe help from the local NNTP group. I do remember this project, and using it for maybe a few weeks. They did track seeds and watering, there were limits to prevent a specific area from being watered too frequently. I don't remember much else.
- jhbadger 7y agoThis is forgetting university students who often had non-dialup access to the Net from computer labs (I even had access to the Net, which was basically just telnet, ftp, and Usenet, in the late 1980s as an undergrad).
- ofrzeta 7y agoArs Electronica, who was a host to the Telegarden for some time, as featured in the article, did a follow-up project called Telezone where people on the Internet could control a robot to build a miniature "city" -> https://ars.electronica.art/futurelab/project/telezone/ https://ars.electronica.art/futurelab/project/telezone/
- bw2 7y agoCareful not to click any of the "telegarden.org" links at the bottom. Looks like the domain expired and was taken over by a pornography website.