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Supposedly at one point decades ago PARC had a wire in the ceiling that rotated and whose rotational speed was dependent on the amount of packets traveling in t
by jerrya 14y ago
Supposedly at one point decades ago PARC had a wire in the ceiling that rotated and whose rotational speed was dependent on the amount of packets traveling in the internet cable strung above it.
(apocryphal?) (what is the truth of this?) (is it still there?)
I believe Facebook is supposed to have a restroom in which a white noise privacy background is generated from global friending/unfriending activity.
- pcl 14y agoI've heard that story before, except that when I heard it, the network was in one of the MIT Rad Lab buildings.
- mceachen 14y agoI understand that Twitter's reception desk had birdsong that played when people tweeted, but it became cacophonous at high tweets-per-second.
- x5315 14y agoI'm pretty sure the speakers were still there when we left.
- buza 14y agoNatalie Jeremijenko made the one at PARC in 1995 as an artist in residence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Jeremijenko#Live_Wire_.28Dangling_String.29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Jeremijenko#Live_Wire_....
- teraflop 14y agoIt was called the "Dangling String": http://books.google.com/books?id=9P5uwNpP1JAC&pg=PA83&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gMu9UJD-LIXo2gXYj4FA&ved=0CEsQ6AEwCQ http://books.google.com/books?id=9P5uwNpP1JAC&pg=PA83...